Art Studio Elbe - Verband freischaffender Künstler.

  Author - Brian Hawkeswood.                                             Nach unten scrollen für die deutsche Übersetzung And: On Klimt’s Little Girl and the Secret Life of Small Paintings It has become one of the ironies of contemporary art that the more cavernous our exhibition halls grow, the bigger the works must become simply to survive inside them. Artists—especially the ambitious, the fashionable, the strategically minded—now paint with one eye on the selector’s clipboard and the other on the scale of the wall. Kunsthallen and converted factories demand spectacle, not intimacy. You do not so much contemplate these works as back away from them in order to see them at all. And yet, in the shadow of this bigness, my mind keeps returning to the quiet rebellion of miniature painting. It is almost subversive now, this act of making something small—something that must be ...