Edward Winkleman on important questions about artists and their legacy, on luck, fate, circumstances and artist's creative center

discussing thoughts by chance of the recent Jan Lievens Show at the National Gallery of Art in Washington referring to a critic in the NYT

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/31/arts/design/31liev.html?_r=2&ref=design&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

Don't miss the growing discussion at Winkleman's Blog, below (just starting)

plus, maybe interesting for German Readers, an interview with the founder of Contemporary Fine Art Berlin at Sueddeutsche.de

http://www.sueddeutsche.de/552389/514/2610602/Die-Zocker-werden-Opfer-ihrer-beispiellosen-Gier.html

en:User:Kkrouni

From Drop Box

Wonderful fractal

by Kkrouni

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Kkrouni

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Complex_fractle_image.PNG

it looks like or imploding times...

Linocut with the skull

I feel like ... back to the basics, back to the old masters. Linocuts, lithography, etchings very exiting techniques

Where ?

From Drop Box

The Kimono

... the work inspired by old photograph of my mother as very young girl ...

Artisterium in Tbilisi 2008

Start: November, 4th

End: November, 9th

http://www.artisterium.org/

and 

Catalog here

http://www.artisterium.org/Artisterium08.pdf

Nice Event ! Have Fun !

Are you talkin' to me ?

DDR 2.0 = G.D.R. 2.0

By the way, recent economic and political developments in Germany are now openly labeled 

GERMAN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC 2.0

(from authors writing on a Market blog)

http://www.mmnews.de/index.php/200810281406/MM-News/DDR-2.0.html

The Snooker Players

The Snooker Players, originally uploaded by tadeusz deregowski.

nice set of works by Tadeusz Deregowski

http://www.flickr.com/photos/28509471@N05/

The Bird

From Other Artists

"The bird" by Maka Batiashvili

" This is my work a statue of bird made from the piece of Russian Bomb, which one I took from Gori ... This is a touch with piece of the bomb which is for me the material to create Art .
The kind of art - organism which will bring peace and new social vision...
To practicing on this installation for me is the act of freedom and feeling to be part of conflicts resolution. " Maka Batiashvili

241

Where ?

falli-paint02digit1200-tr, originally uploaded by grijsz.

27 Yankee Atomic Power Plant by Kenny Cole

27 Yankee Atomic Power Plant, originally uploaded by what'sTHEfrequencyKENNETH?.

this work I won in a nice contest, where I tried to figure out some background of this drawing. My guess was not too far from the drawn object, but nevertheless Mr. Cole pronounced me the winner.

You can follow the dialog here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/kennycole/2966880468/

Thank you Kenny !

Bester Beitrag im deutschen Internet 2008

" Das Gutenbergphänomen"

von iDog

17 You Ravaged my Patrimony

17 You Ravaged my Patrimony, originally uploaded by what'sTHEfrequencyKENNETH?.

incredible works by

Kenny Cole

http://www.flickr.com/photos/kennycole/

I wished to see similar works coming from the Caucasus Region

Talking to me ?

by the way, de Niro looks really like a Georgian here ;-)

and a great Parody is here:

Turkey bans Blogger and Georgia is blocked too

since Friday, 24th

more info here

http://www.basbasbas.com/blog/

As Caucasus Online is probably using Services of DigiTurk, also access from Georgia, Sakartvelo is blocked to any Blogger.com and blogspot.com sites. Do Turkish rules affect now on Georgia as well ?

I emailed my provider Caucasus Online and it's support twice to ask for help about this huge issue, but did not get any answer (hey it's weekend..) by now.

Google wanted to take care about this issue, without result by now. There is a discussion going on here:

http://tinyurl.com/55fon5

(with a workaround too)

Update:

Thanks to Caucasus Online, Digiturk, Google - it's working now again.

The Gangsta Rap

Hans asked me to post this:

Lado Pochkhua - The Elegy for Working Class Boys

... here's my big two canvases in the studio ... History Lesson or The Elegy for Working Class Boys

Right to your eye

Right to your eye, originally uploaded by andrefromont/fernandomort.

by Andre Fromont

http://www.flickr.com/photos/andrefromont/

Greece,Crete,1941

Tweede Wereldoorlog, 1941, originally uploaded by Nationaal Archief.

Crete, Greece, 1941

Görden,1945

In memoriam H.... B....

Die Tür sprang auf –
Über die hingemähten Schläfer in den weißen Betten
Glitt SEINE Geste -
segnend zuerst, dann brüderlich.
Nur wenige Wachende ahnten den Ruf
Der taggeborenes Grauen hinab in seine Grenzen zwang.
Nur einer war bereit:
Vollendet, harrte er des niegelebten Fühlens
Das Ende und Bedingung allen Lebens wird. 

ER trat zu ihm                          

und ließ die Falten  

Seines Mantels um ihn fallen.  

So ward es wieder Nacht –


Görden, 7.1.45
Hans Schnick

... from Lado with love ...

For Lado

Exhibition by lado Pochkhua: Budapest on October 21st

Exhibition by lado Pochkhua: Budapest on October 21st, originally uploaded by Rapho (georgien.blogspot.com).

Life Circles

From Drop Box

Gardens, Ships and Lessons - The crowd...

Lado Pochkhua - Gardens, Ships and Lessons

The exhibition happened in Budapest in the gallery K Petrys Haz... nice crowd, good wine... my art...

In diesen hellen Nächten

In diesen hellen Nächten

In diesen hellen Nächten bist Du mir nah,
Stehst Du begütigend bei meinen Fiebern.
Wie oft, wie oft ich Dich so sah,
lächelnd, hinter den leis geschlossenen Lidern.
Wenn dann die Sehnsucht geigt,
Wiedererwachtes Verlangen schreit
Biege ich die Stunden zum Ring
Der fest umspannt
Was nicht ertrank –
Was immer wieder in mein Wissen dringt - -
In einer dieser hellen Nächte werd’ ich mich erheben
Die alten Kleider werden von mir fallen
Wie dünngelebte Fesseln, die einst banden
Und werde Deinem Lächeln nach ins Wesenlose gehen.

Hans-Jürgen Schnick, 25.12.44

"...in fact, it’s nearly all middle. ..."

"I’m discovering that making distinctions between high or low is extremely difficult, mainly because so many artists are aiming for the middle, in fact, it’s nearly all middle. It goes across the whole spectrum of our culture."

read further at:

Henri Art Magazine

http://henrimag.com/blog1/?p=326

Drawing by Nugzari Natenadze

From nugzari-studio

Thea Djordjadze at Sprüth Magers Berlin London

http://spruethmagers.net/artists/thea_djordjadze

CV

Interview in German with Sprüth Magers

http://www.art-magazin.de/szene/11437/sprueth_magers_berlin

Our great and lovely Georgian female artists have a new blog

at

http://georgianfemaleartists.blogspot.com/

The Georgian male artists wish lots of success ;-)

Nugzari Natenadze

From nugzari-studio

Dikaia Bogoroditsa, 2003

me-blur

me-blur, originally uploaded by grijsz.

It's Sunday night, relax

or

Lado Pochkhua's studio, october 19 Budapest

... two days before opening of my show at Petrys Haz gallery, Budapest... my studio in total mess...

Goya after Velazquez + blur

From Blurs

Schlobin 1943 (Weißrussland)

Nun fällt der erste Schnee -
Aus all der Drohung über stummen Wipfeln
Ist dieses Schweben uns geworden
Und hüllt in seinen Schleier ein
Die Toten auf den Feldern.
Legt sich, ein letztes Siegel, noch
In ihren Mund.
Herr,
lasse mich vergehn
in tränenlose Schwere
Vergib mein Irren auf den falschen Wegen
Und lehre mich der Demut letzten Grund

28.12.1944 Hans-Jürgen Schnick

polish-rider-blur

polish-rider-blur, originally uploaded by grijsz.

goldhelm-blured

goldhelm-blured, originally uploaded by grijsz.

blurred Courbet

blurred Courbet, originally uploaded by grijsz.

Something like this for "In the Caucasus"

Julia Wallner history_lesson

http://www.juliawallner.org/doku.php?id=history_lesson

The Golden Fleece

http://www.juliawallner.org/doku.php?id=das_goldene_vlies

i_hope_it_is_as_underground_as_possible

Baselitz at Artvibrations.com

http://www.artvibrations.com/georgbaselitz/index/index.html

Jonathan Meese - "EZRA POUND"

found on Youtube

Ihr Stimmen der Nacht

Es gibt eine Stelle

an die man nicht rühren darf -

Einen Schatten

der sich über die Tiefe spannt -

Wo der Ton schlummert

den man nicht wecken darf

der das Denken zerbricht -

Ach, Ihr Stimmen der Nacht !

Verführt nicht meine Einsamkeit

zu diesem Frevel !

Erst muss ich noch die letzte Bitterkeit

aus einem wunden Herzen pressen -

in ihrem Tropfen

die letzte Hoffnung lösen.

Dann erst werd ich frei.

Hans-Jürgen Schnick

19.01.1945

Hans-Jürgen Schnick

was my Great Uncle and he lived from 09.12.1914 till 03.09.1948

This poem wrote his mother Olga Schnick, geb. Frielinghaus (my Grand-grandmother) after the news of Hans' death 13.09.1948

Kummer ist versunken,
Not und Qual,
Wenn Du ausgetrunken
Den Pokal,

Den ein stiller Bruder
Dir gebracht.
Stumm taucht er die Ruder
In der Nacht.

Sternengoldbetropfte
Dunkle Flut
Schmerzenslos schon klopfte
Bald Dein Blut.

Tiefe blaue Welle
Wiegt das Boot
Über Traumes Schwelle
Nah am Tod.

Even in the far steppes of Asia

Article by Irma Kharshiladze

From opening

From opening

Opening Cafe in the Waves

From opening

From opening

Nugzari Natenadze and me

From opening

Ia and ?

From opening

Kerstin with Vassili and Bessa

From opening

From opening

Talking with Murtazi Shvelidze

From opening

Nino and the Dutchman playing Nardi

From opening

From opening

From opening

Steffen and Nino

From opening

Vassili

From opening

Nugzari and Irma Kharshiladze

From opening

Nino playing

From opening

From opening

From opening

With Irma, Lela and Timo

From opening

Graf Oto and Angela

From opening