Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: austria, burroughs, drawing, helnwein, hyper realism, mixed media, photography, subtlety, surprised recognition, watercolor
well i don’t think it’s possible to describe helnwein/his works/his vision with ordinary words. so i keep myself away from an introduction text that i usually would like to put in the beginning of a post. but this time i feel like i’m not gonna be able to make a proper impression of helnwein, so i leave this to you. he’s one of the most inspirational artists(maybe the most) to me and i think william s. burroughs found a pretty good way to talk about him so i don’t have anything to do with it:
“it is the function of the artist to evoke the experience of the surprised recognition: to show the viewer what he knows but does not know that he knows. helnwein is the master of the surprised recognition”.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: abstract forms, children's stories, fairy tale, illustration, michael kalmbach, robert miller gallery, watercolor
michael kalmbach is an artist from germany. i met kalmbach’s watercolor illustrations while looking around the works of the artists belonged to robert miller gallery. his works mostley developed around children’s stories depicting human figures, again mostly kids, and abstract forms. however what seems attractive here is that the artist reflects his own vision about these stories in a quite original way: he does not create this typical “cute”, “likeable” kind of a child’s image; instead he depicts an uncanny mood accompanied by some mysterious fairy tale and the kids permeated, assimilated in this atmosphere. the result is not “likeable”, not “pretty” but i think it’s challenging the certain solidified “disneyfied” image of children.
