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Pingback: Welcome Germans! « Claire’s Art Party
I´m one of the German pupils who are taught by your friend Mr. Berger (by the way: he behaves like an old, experienced teacher- very professionally).
Thanks for this nice welcoming text. As I´ve read it right at the beginning I´m less nervous now. I hope you´ll ignore my grammar and languages mistakes.
I´m going to look at your paintings and photos tomorrow or during the weekend.
I´m very excited.
Best regards
Josephine
Hi Josephine,
Thanks for leaving a comment. I’m glad my welcome made you feel less nervous. Mr. Berger was also very professional when he taught here in the United States.
hi,
I´ve looked at your paintings now.
At first i have to admit that i never draw. I´m more familiar with music. I´m not able to express my feelings oder thoughts in paintings. Furthermore I´m not creative enough. Even if I had some ideas, I were not able realize them…
All in all, I´m deeply impressed by your paintings, especially by the character you´ve drawn, their features…
I want to be honest: I look et them and I feel nothing. It´s difficult to explain. I mean, when I hear music, classical music or pop music, I feel something, I begin to dream or to think about problems, persons….
But when I look at some paintings I just can say if I like them or not.
I like your paintings and I admire your abilities!
Sorry that I couldn´t inspire, motivate or criticize you.
I hope you´re happy about a praise.
Best regards.
Josephine
(Maybe I can look at your paintings one more time. Then I´ll try to become more concrete.)
hey
So i’m the second one to comment. =)
thanks for your lovely wecome text too!
but i have time now to look at your paintings.
So i really love the style of your paintings.
I am not good in drawing faces, but you are brilliant.
I love those round paintigs, especially the thirth one !
I hope you want to hear what I think about it.
I think in the middle you could see a mouth and maybe the yellow circles are speech bubbles. And the blue background is the air. And that means that your are daily surronded by people who wants to talk to you, but sometimes it is such nonsense that you would not answer.
(I am really sorry when this is wrong. Or a question, could a interpretation be wrong?)
Ok this would be my question for now!
It would be nice to get an answer!
Best regards!
Lizzie
(Please ignore my grammar mistakes too!)
Hi Lizzie,
Thanks for stopping by. Your interpretation of my painting is really interesting. I always am fascinated by how other people interpret my art, and how they help me see new meanings in it that I never saw before. The painting is about chaos, particularly that of galaxies in the solar system, and how chaos can be beautiful. In a sense your interpretation of my art is also about the chaos of daily life, and how many people talk a lot, but say very little of substance. For me, part of the joy of creating art is process of making sense of the world, and having other people view and discuss the statement that I have put on the canvas.
Thank you for this answer!
Wow I really like your interpretation. I am really interested in astronomy. I have it in school instead of geography. I love to see galaxies or nebulae. Maybe you are interested in a computer program that show the air in the night. (it is free: http://www.stellarium.org)
I have a question: How long does it take for you to draw one painting?
best regards!
Lizzie
Hi Lizzie,
Stellarium looks like a really cool program. The amount of time it takes me to complete a painting depends on the painting. I estimate that some of my more detailed paintings take me at least 10 hours to complete. My paintings on vinyl records have several layers of paint on them because I have to cover up the grooves in the record.
Nice site Claire good luck on your show at ARC. Cheers Tim
Thanks, Tim. Tell Virginia good luck with her show too.
hey claire,
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I’m one of mr berger’s students too. I’m really happy to get this chance to write with a native speaker. I hope you’ll help us a little bit to improve our language skills
At first I have to say that art normally isn’t my area of expertise. I don’t like these art lessons in which everybody has to have a realistic and logical explanation of a drawing or something. But looking at art and just thinking about it sounds much better to me.
While looking at your paintings I had lots of ideas. I really like them and your way of painting. It is very interesting and much more lively than the abstract art we often looked at in school. But there are a few question I’d like to ask you:
You mostly paint woman, don’t you? Do have any reasons for this? Why do you preferentially paint with quite dark and cold colours, such as blue or green? Your painted people mostly look sad or worried. Do you maybe want to express your own feelings while painting?
I’m looking forward to get your answer!
best regards!
philipp
Hi Philipp,
I do mostly paint women. Part of this is because most of the models I have had in my classes have been women. I am also particularly interested in issues that women face, and sometimes I explore these through my art. I paint with blues and greens because these are my favorite colors, and also because they are in keeping with the mood of most of my paintings. My portraits express a range of emotions, but I would agree that they tend to look sad and worried. I attempt to reflect the emotions that I see on the faces of my subjects more than I try to insert my own emotions into the painting. Though, as an artist, it is almost impossible to exclude my emotions from a piece.
Wow, I hadn´t thought that we´d be welcomed this warmly. I´m afraid I havn´t looked at your art yet (in fact, I´m writing this only because Mr Berger asked me in RE whether I had already written to you and I´ve got a bit of a bad conscience now), but I will do so in the next two days.
Till then!
Greets from Germany,
Benedikt
Hi Benedikt,
Thanks for visiting. I look forward to hearing from you.
-Claire
Hi Claire,
it’s me – Max. You don’t remember me? You can’t^^!
I’m another student of your friend Cornelius.
I can subscribe to Philipps’ view. I don’t like abstract art, so I like your first self painting best because it looks most realistic of all pieces. Besides it is, I don’t why but it definitely is, quite impressive (beeindruckend) and expressive (ausdrucksstark).
Maybe you’re interested why I don’t like abstract art…or maybe you’re not^^…but anyway: On the one hand I don’t like it because of the reason Philipp mentioned and on the other hand it is that abstract art of big artists which is sold for thousands of dollars and if I hand in my “abstract art” in school I get bad marks. What is your opinion of my “problem”?
(I’ll finish like my classmates now. Maybe you can write me another conclusion in your answer.)
Best regards!
Max
Hi Max,
You’re allowed to prefer one type of art over another. I think it is better to ground oneself in the fundamentals of representing an object realistically and accurately before venturing off into abstract art. Maybe in the future I will try abstract art, but I still think I need to improve my skill base before I can start breaking the rules. Your art teachers might think the same way I do and want you to learn basic skills before attempting to do abstract art. In some art schools in the U.S., they are eliminating the “basic skills” coursework and encouraging students to just explore their creativity. I think there is some value in students gaining skills in fundamentals like proportion, value, color theory, and perspective. Then after they are competent in these areas they can make a conscious decision to go in another direction.
Hey,
I also had a look at your paintings and I really like them, especially the round ones. I wondered whether there is always a special meaning behind you pictures that you want to express.
As you might know we talked a lot about the topic “art” in our english lesons and we often discussed the question whether there are any borders for art. Who declares something to be art and is it possibile to decide whether a picture, a photograph or something else is art or not?
I’d be really interessted in your opinion.
Best regards! Teresa
Hi Teresa,
There is usually something I want to express when I am doing my painting, though sometimes I don’t know what it is until I finish. The question about what determines true “art” is very difficult to answer. The the definitions of art have shifted over time, as methods and materials once considered ‘outsider’ or controversial have become mainstream and accepted. It seems these days that art is in the eye of the beholder. Tastes and preferences are fickle, so I expect the recognition of objects, performances, and new mediums as art will continue to be fluid and ever-changing.
Hey Claire,
You must have had enough of all the nerve-racking pupils of Mr. Berger;) and I´m the next one. Sorry that I write that late! I already wanted to get in touch with you a bit earlier, but I hadn´t the time for that. And now I looked at your pictures which are really interesting! I found really special that although women are showed, they are not drawn that delightful and feminine as usually, but I liked that! You have to know that I often get in touch with paintings of old master like Rembrandt, Raffael, Canaletto ect as I work in the picture gallery of Dresden (I´m really interested in art and I want to study art history:)) and I don´t like these perfect bodies of the madonnas and their innocent look, the unnatural and kitschy behaviour..but I have to admit that I like these nevertheless because it was typical for this time:) I just wanted to say that I admit your natural (the nacked women for example) and intensive paintings, also the round ones! It is something different. Please don´t give up painting although you might have doubts about your work, but in my opinion you have talent and with art you just want to express something or maybe just wanna be creative, feel free to do so and share it with other people and not only to please. (except you need to sell them:)) Furthermore it always depends on the perspective and it is always a question of taste!
Keep on drawing such interesting paintings:)
I´m looking forward to “hearing” from you soon!
And thank you for the possibility to speak with a native speaker (thank you, Mr. Burger:)) about such an interesting subject and for your patience!
I´m sorry for my language mistakes!
See you soon,
Carolin
Hi Carolin,
That’s great that you work in the art gallery in Dresden. That will be a good experience to carry with you into art school, if that’s what you choose to pursue. Thanks for encouraging me to pursue my art. I definitely plan to keep it up in one form or another. One of my aims in drawing women was to draw them more as multidimensional beings and less as objects of beauty. An object of beauty is devoid of life and serves more as decoration than a representation of the soul that inhabits that body. Part of what makes a person a person is her character, and I see that so often lacking in depictions of women. In an image, an inkling of personality that is not charming or catering to sexual desire is seen as challenging or off-putting. I want to challenge the purpose of images of women and the viewers of these images to think beyond the physicality of women and explore the real ‘life behind the eyes’ of the subject. So, though my work is two-dimensional, I want to portray women as anything but that.
Hey Claire,
after some days without internet I’m able to have a look on your paintings
Although I never liked the art lessons in school I’m interested in art. I really like the way you paint, especially the portraits. Do you have a “model” or do you just paint what’s in your mind?
Best regards!
Hanna
Very cool portfolio! Love the record paintings the most.
-Jess, from the Assemble Artist Chat
Hi Jess,
Thanks for the comment. I’d really like to get back into painting records regularly. Your portfolio is really impressive. How did you learn to draw and render images like that?