Hanjo For more than 40 years Karl has been my closest friend. He once was my professor in architecture and later became my friend and in the course of time even a kind of father figure for me. He died 2006, two weeks prior to his 100th anniversary, and I am still miss him badly. So yesterday I took my time to paint him after a photograph I took when he was at the age of 93. |
JP Hanjo - now that some of us have gotten to know, respect, and feel, in some way, close to you, I'm sure we would like to understand Karl's qualities - that made him become your closest friend (and possibly give you a small opportunity for some little tribute to your erstwhile professor). Many thanks. |
XXS I missed your contributions in AP, but I see that was worth waiting. |
Maria Hello dear. We have long talked about criticism and being honest and so on. Most of the examples of honest negative opinions we have expressed have been addressed to people we haven’t met in person and some times I think we sort of didn’t dare do it with our friends. |
Hanjo Well my dear, let me start with a preamble, too. I do appreciate your honesty, I really do, for that’s the fundament of any talk that matters. And I do appreciate that you do not sit in the background thinking this or that for yourself but standing here and speak it out aloud. That’s indeed a very good thing and a very curageous one as well. Why? I guess that the reason that we do this honest criticizing so very seldom if ever isn’t only to be shy of hurting the other one but also to be afraid of getting back a punch on one’s own nose. |
karen I have to disagree with you Maria, in the first place, I do recall writing a negative comment on paintings I didn’t like, and saying why, in this webpage, in particular to Hanjo and to Hillel. Two persons I consider very good friends of mine, and whom I admire profoundly. |
Maria I will soon answer my friends, with details on what I said about this painting. I just have to take a short trip and when I am back I will tell you all about what I have in mind. love to all. |
XXS Dear Maria, |
Hanjo John-Paul, to answer your question I will quote from a story by J.D. Salinger Karl would have liked. |
Hanjo The other day I found a text by German painter Johannes Grützke that describes perfectly what I think painting is for me. And for I like this description so much I translated it into what I think might be taken for English while trying to keep some of his personal style of writing. Okay, this way all of you can read it. It goes like this: |
Heinz I saw the works of Hanjo allready earlier and I am glad to discover them here on ArtProcess. |
helen |