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Please, give credit to the artists
Recently, I often wonder why when people quote an excerpt from a book or poem, they almost always indicate the author, but with paintings (respectively photographs) they have no attitude that it is necessary to do so. Probably because they are “on the Internet”? And this is not at all about the wild and wanton use of the images – over the years friends have informed me that my painting has been used without permission for example as a pattern for a tapestry, or copied one-to-one and for sale, or used in a rendering of interior or in the logo of some apocryphal site. No, this is about the daily…
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A new year – new beginnings
Sooo… a new year, as a blank canvas. What will I paint on it? Who knows? I did not have space to write a post about 2017 (because the last 4 days I bravely ventured in studio repairs), but it was a good year. Saturated. With good and not-so-good days. With precious inner work, with journeys, with learning to say ‘no’, with almost all paintings completed, with wisdom earned the hard way, with a string of minor but adorable moments, with shared ‘ordinary magic’ as a friend named them. I feel grateful for all of them.if there was something I learned during the last years, it was that I could…
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“Brilliant Ideas” modern art documentaries
Recently I came upon some documentaries by Bloomberg on modern artists that create on a huge scale. I was truly fascinated and inspired!the series are nearly sixty, every video is approximately 25 minutes long. P.S. After I watched nearly 2/3 of the documentaries, I thought:– never comment / judge / reject modern art before you know details on the concept behind it– dream big! dream beyond your own dreams! and in general – don’t stop dreaming!
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Exquisite pieces of art
*Images copyright belongs to the rightful owners It’s been a while since I wrote a post in the Art category, so today I would like to share not one but three artists. They create very diverse art, but all of them impressed me with their exquisiteness and love for the detail.I would love to own them in my house some day 😉 The floral fairy-tales of Vanessa Hogge:
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Thoughts in front of the fireplace
In front of the fireplace again. After a heady, enthusiastic, but also very tiring week of exhibition opening, meetings and conversations with beautiful people, physical exhaustion from packing and carrying up and down and back and forth of paintings and tons of catalogues, it is time for a well deserved breather. While I am staring at the hypnotizing flames I remember a recent article by Ani about her 101 things to be thankful for from the past year and without conscious intention I start to list mine… They are far from one hundred and one, but they are all beautiful. I am thankful for – the smoking coffee in the…
