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The Unchanged Hand: On the Artistic Mastery of the Cave of Cosquer

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  Author - Brian Hawkeswood.                                                        Nach unten scrollen für die deutsche Übersetzung There are moments in the long contemplation of art when time folds in upon itself, when the distance between twenty-seven millennia and the present hour seems no greater than the space between the eye and the canvas. One stands before the painted animals of the Upper Paleolithic and senses not primitiveness but recognition. The line is assured. The form is understood. The creature breathes. And one realises, perhaps with some discomfort, that the human capacity for artistic perception has altered far less than our technologies would flatter us into believing. Among the most haunting of these early sanctuaries is the submerged cavern known as Cosquer Cave , hidden for tens of thousands of years along the Mediterr...
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The Ghost at the Border of Fields and Spremberger Evening Mood.

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Author- Brian Hawkeswood .             Two Recent Works by Chris Lóhmann        Scroll Down for English Version. Other pieces on the work of Chris Löhmann. https://artelbestudio.blogspot.com/2025/11/roots-of-discipline-in-garden-of-artist.html https://artelbestudio.blogspot.com/2025/08/mein-erster-blick-auf-chris-lohmann-my.html Das Gespenst am Rande der Felder   Die erste Begegnung mit Löhmann,s  Das Böse Gespenst in den Bäumen am Rande der Äcker… ist wie das Stehen an der Schwelle der Erinnerung selbst, dort, wo das bestellte Feld plötzlich in den Schatten der Bäume übergeht und in diesem Saum—weder ganz gezähmt noch ganz wild—eine Erscheinung wartet. Seine Kompositionen scheinen immer zu wissen, dass das menschliche Drama nicht im offenen Zentrum, sondern an den Rändern spielt, in jenen zweideutigen Zonen, wo eine Welt in die andere übergeht.    Chris Löhmann. " Das Böse Gespenst in den Bäumen am Rande der Äcker ...
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Everyone Is in Gethsemane: First Reflections on the Work of Karen Gäbler

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  Author- Brian Hawkeswood.                                                       Nach unten scrollen für die deutsche Übersetzung When sifting through the long register of Dresden’s Künstlerbund, I did not expect to come upon work that would stop me in my tracks. Yet there was Karen Gäbler. At first, I thought of composing a modest introduction under the title “My First Look at Karen Gäbler.” But almost immediately it became clear that her art resists brevity. To confine it to a first impression would be to diminish it. Her paintings demand space for thought, for the layering of interpretation, for silence even. They do not merely offer images; they pose questions that linger, pressing upon one’s own experience and memory.                                     ...
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