Catch Me If You Can

And join me...

Just laugh and walk away...

Unbedingt - Unconditional/ Essential

Sometimes in this venal world - and I do not blame anybody but rather the "system" - it happens that one comes across something that hits the very heart and suddenly money does not matter any more.



Hah!

Phhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh (hold your breath) - Who's Afraid

of meaning?!

Hah!

Association-Imagination

"There are forms that are figurative to me, and if they develop into a figurative image … it's all right if they do. I don't have the feeling that something has to be completely non-associative as far as figure form is concerned." - Franz Kline

I wonder but I'm sure the human imagination will always work against the non-associative ;)!

This is hoping that human beings will never stop to transform clouds into images...

Sometimes Simple and Sublime ;)

 So incredibly light and hard ;)!

Traces

Unbegreiflich

There are things that I cannot possibly grasp, no matter how hard I try. Yet I profoundly know them to be true.

Close-Up

Zuneigung

or what is (truly) feminine.

Now Wake

Art-World

or what is Joseph Beuys actually aiming at when he says that everybody is an artist? What is his direction - from the inside out or from the outside in or something completely different? Another quote (translated): "I've said that everybody is an artist, but I haven't said that everybody is a painter!" - when confronted with an awful painting.

Certainly it's something universal and an act of liberation.

The Torture of Torsion

If all of a sudden one is asked to draw a heavily contorted sculpture and this from a difficult perspective.

And then being saved by the discovery of the rear and its possibilities...

Blindness

The Hardest Thing

the most demanding job is to bring up somebody.

Liebkosen

At Liberty To See

and behold the fantastic details

Where's Your Heart At

Burning - Dripping 

Elementary

contrast and balance

scale

The Art of Conception

The adventure  is to be actually in the moment and you will hopefully get something to look at.

Never, Never, Never, Never, Never

How if remorse comes way too late... and each "never" makes it more painfully clear.

the magnificent Michael Pennington

Looking Down...

...I noticed the expected person approaching, walking like he owned the place - since he was the lord of the building opposite he probably did partially.

Vanity Fair - Big Grin

Comedy Is More Subtle

Comedy and tragedy are at their best when each contains traits of the other. A tragedy often happens because somebody is behaving rather silly. The best comedies are those that could as well have ended tragically.

On Acting

A poem by Wilhelm August Wohlbrück on acting. The translation was provided by Steve Crook. Thanks again! Allegedly his descendant Adolf Wohlbrück or rather Anton Walbrook used to sing this poem accompanying himself on the guitar. - No wonder btw that it ends with a toast ;)!


Wir Schauspieler

Wir haben fürwahr doch den glücklichsten Stand!-
Sag’ keiner mir etwas dawider;
Wir kamen daher aus verschiedenem Land,
Wir haben uns alle früher nicht gekannt,
Und jetzt sind wir Freunde und Brüder:
Denn schnell wie der Edle dem Edlen sich ein’t,
Erkennt der Künstler im Künstler den Freund

Der Zufall regieret die übrige Welt:
Geburt braucht der Fürst und der König,
Der Bauer den Segen vom Wetter erhält,
Der Bürger braucht Arbeit, der Kaufmann braucht Geld,
Bald hat er zu viel, bald zu wenig;
Uns kümmert Geburt nicht, noch Zufall noch Geld,
Wir bauen uns selber die lustige Welt

Was kümmert es uns, ob es Tag oder Nacht,
Ob Winter, ob Sommer regieren,
Ob draußen die goldene Sonne uns lacht,
Ob’s regnet und schneit, ob es blizet und kracht,
Uns kann das fürwahr nicht genieren:
Denn Winter und Sommer und Tag und Nacht
Wird stets von uns selber zum Spaße gemacht.

Was jetzo geschieht und ehmals geschah, Und was noch dereinst wird geschehen, Was nimmer geschieht, was kein Auge je sah, Für uns ist es lebend, für uns ist es da, Wir haben’s gefühlt und gesehen; Denn wir sind in allen drei Zeiten zugleich, Für uns ist der Dichtung unendliches Reich. Bei uns wird der Tugend stets herrlicher Lohn, der Strafe entgeht kein Verbrecher, Und spräch’ er auch keck der Gerechtigkeit Hohn, Es findet sich dennoch der Rächer: Und ehe der Vorhang zum fünftenmal fällt, Der Sünder seine Strafe erhält. Wir sind das moralisch’ste Völkchen der Welt - Ich kenn kein bess’res hienieden - Denn jeder strebt nur, daß er andern gefällt Und erst wenn er alle zufrieden gestellt,  Drum haben wir wahrlich den glücklichsten Stand- Sag’ keiner mir etwas dawider- Wir kamen daher aus verschiedenem Land, Wir haben uns alle nicht früher gekannt, Durch Ihn sind wir Freunde und Brüder! So trinket und bringet mit jauchzender Lust Ein jubelndes Hoch Ihm! aus fröhlicher Brust.                    Wilhelm August Wohlbrück

We Actors

We have indeed but the happiest status --
Don't tell me anything against it ;
We came from different countries,
We didn't know each other earlier,
And now we are friends and brothers:
Because fast as the noble unifies with the noble,
Recognizes the artist in the artist the friend.

Coincidence governs the rest of the world:
Lineage needs the Prince and the King,
The farmer blessing from the weather gets
The citizen needs work, the merchant needs money,
Soon he has too much, sometimes too little;
We do not care for birth, nor coincidence and money,
We build ourselves the cheerful world.

What do we care whether it is day or night,
Whether summer, whether winter governs
Whether outside the golden sun us laughs
Whether it's raining and snowing, and whether lightning crashes,
We can not really care:
Because winter and summer and day or night
We will always make at our own pleasure.

What happens now and  has happened in former times
And yet once will happen
What never will happen, what no eye ever saw,
For us it is alive, for us it is there,
We have seen and felt it;
Because we are in all three times at the same time,
For us,  poetry is our infinite realm.

With us beautiful virtue will always get its deserts,
The criminal does not escape punishment,
And would he  rascally turn justice into a travesty,
There will  still be an avenger:
And before the curtain falls for the fifth time,
The sinners are certainly  punished.

We are the most ethical tribe of the world
I know of no better down here,
Because everyone aspires only to please the other,
And only when all are satisfied,
Then he himself is satisfied;
Yes, even if only one shows displeasure
So he sighs and has not achieved his purpose.

So we have truly the happiest position
Don't tell me anything against it,
We came  from different countries,
We didn't know each other earlier,
By Him (the art of acting) we are friends and brothers!
So drink and bring with jubilating pleasure
A high toast to Him! from a cheerful chest.

Wilhelm August Wohlbrück

Horizont

In Want of Something/ Anything (Please ;))

or the reason for some recent changes in the art-world.

It's become quite apparent that some of the super-rich - or if you fancy it more "über-rich" - are trying to apply strategies they've learned in the world of business to art. So they are buying "new" art from young artists very cheaply and reselling or better re-auctioning it to their wealthy friends with interest. Quite clever and quite effective if you manage to establish some artists - or should I say brands - this way, for no matter how huge the output of the individual artist may be, it will still be more scarce than gold.

This is the nasty side, but since I do not want to believe that people do function quite that rational(ised) all the time yet, I'm inclined to give these people the benefit of passion or a soul. At least some I hope are sensing a deep longing for something more to life and maybe the only field that nowadays seems to be still free from these considerations of utter efficiency, the fine arts, may offer them a way to quench this longing. As long as they won't succeed in destroying it as well.