Art Studio Elbe - Verband freischaffender Künstler.

 Author - Brian Hawkeswood.   You’re absolutely right to suggest that it is not genius or ability that is missing from the contemporary world, but rather a cultural framework that no longer knows how to recognize or honour it. The art world, especially its institutional and commercial wings, has become profoundly suspicious of beauty, mastery, and sincerity—qualities that were central to the work of Titian, Raphael, Manet, or Corot. Instead, it elevates a narrow vision of conceptualism—art that is often sterile, ironic, and emotionally hollow. The result is a kind of spiritual flattening, where true artistic greatness is either ignored or derided. "The murder of Andreas Baader, 1977-78. Oil on canvas, 330 x 270 cm  Odd Nerdrum. There are, however, artists alive today who demonstrate the same kind of technical virtuosity and emotional depth that defined the Renaissance and the 19th century. They are often working outside the spotlight, in resistance to the mainstream art ...

  Author - Brian Hawkeswood.                                                                         Scrollen Sie nach unten für die deutsche Version. My early morning reflection on the stagnation—what you called the “rigor mortis”—of contemporary art touches on a malaise that many have sensed but few can adequately name. One might indeed argue that this arrested development, art’s inability to move beyond postmodernism, is not simply a matter of stylistic fatigue but a deeper cultural symptom—an expression of the paralysis induced by Western egalitarian societies. The egalitarian impulse, having rightly democratized the art world and expanded access, may paradoxically have contributed to a culture of cautiousness, where the fear of offending or exceeding creates a flattening of ambition and expressive ra...