By Daniel Bonnell
When approaching one of Baselitz’s massive up-side-down paintings you must be on guard. His art acts as walls of seeking and suffering, simplicity and complexity, and profound yet primal beauty. To think about it is to destroy it-one must simply be with the work and if any answers are sought it [...]
Questions, interviews, and personalities often equal the lame, useless, and banal. What is real always changes you if you are teachable. Asking the right questions feels impossible at times. It leads me to realize that life itself often disguises itself as just that, a series of questions, such as what is real [...]
Robert Capa called it the decisive moment. Andrew Wyeth called it the third dimension of realness. Georgia O’Keeffe called it the fragmented whole. It is the ability to orchestrate a concept with a visual element that gives birth to a third dimension of seeing. Few artists in history have had the consistency that [...]
The paintings of Markus Lüpertz present us with doors of possibility, the sheer scale of which begs one to fall in. But you have to approach these works with visceral openness, the way you would approach a new lover. You enter a painter’s world that challenges description beyond Neo-Expressionism, incorporating the classical and [...]
