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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 Girls at the Table: Portraits on the Edge of Becoming

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Author -Brian Hawkeswood.                                                                                      Scroll Down For English Version. Die Mädchen am Tisch: Porträts am Rand des Erwachsenseins https://artelbestudio.blogspot.com/2025/09/everyone-is-in-gethsemane-first.html Ich hatte in dem Atelier eine stille Ecke gefunden, einen Zufluchtsort der Ruhe, von dem aus ich die Gemälde betrachten konnte, die sorgfältig ausgewählt und an den Wänden platziert worden waren. Wie so oft war meine Aufmerksamkeit geteilt zwischen den Werken selbst und dem feinen Theater der Menschen, die zwischen ihnen umherwanderten. Mein Blick folgt immer jenen leichten Unregelmäßigkeiten des menschlichen Verhaltens—Gesten oder Haltungen, die, weil sie nur minimal vom Erwartbaren abweichen, etw...
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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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