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Interactive art piece by Sarah Kretchmer
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Interactive art piece by Sarah Kretchmer
Genuine artists are not looking for images that convey their preconceived ideas, they create images that speak for themselves --- even though they are rooted in paideia and the desire for communication.
This week on Bad at Sports I interview Martina AltSchaefer.This is the first of two interviews with German artists I conducted on the island of Elba, Italy. Martina AltSchaefer is an artist living in Rüssellsheim, Germany. She studied with the famed Konrad Kapheck and her creative work centers on very large, labor-intensive drawing in colored pencil on translucent paper. AltSchaefer has exhibited in many prestigious galleries and museums. She also does printmaking and is an expert on mezzotint, about which she has curated shows and written essays. She was in an invitational retreat in July as a working guest of a foundation on the island of Elba along with Viennese jazz pianist and composer Martin Reiter, New York playwright Sony Sobieski, Berlin artist Alexander Johannes Kraut (the interviewee in part two) and me, Mark Staff Brandl, the EuroShark, Bad at Sports Continental and now also islandal European Bureau. And for all the Napoleon fans, especially those commenting on Facebook, they were not in exile and even Mark was allowed back on the mainland without having to invade it.
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The absolute lack of desire for a mature style, for growth in depth, in an artistic oeuvre is possibly one of the greatest mistakes of our time. That is a lot of what makes recent art more akin to American Idol than to times such as the late Baroque or even High Modernism.
Nam Catonem nostrum non tu amas plus, quam ego; sed tamen ille optimo animo utens et summu fide nocet interdum rei publicae; dicit enim tamquam in Platonis politeia, non tamquam in Romuli faece sententiam. --- Cicero
As to our friend Cato , I have as warm a regard for him as you. But the fact remains that with all his patriotism and integrity he is sometimes a political liability. He speaks in the Senate as though he were living in Plato's Republic rather than Romulus's shit hole. --- Cicero