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by hemmert 4y ago
I never liked artist's statements, either. Perhaps that was also what motivated me to do the stamp thing. I want to paint in peace :-)
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by hemmert 4y ago
Thank you, it's been on my list anyway! (Even if I'll have to cross off the stamp on the back after reading it ...)
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by hemmert 4y ago
Thank you, all credit goes to Branko Matic's fantastic Kirby theme 'ZeroOne" :-) https://www.thezero.club/demo/one/
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by hemmert 4y ago
Thank you! I'll definitely save this entire discussion here as a PDF and save it in the 'projects archive'. Amazing comments!
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by hemmert 4y ago
Wow, that's something I hadn't thought about yet. I'm also not sure if that's true, but it'd be a satisfying, calming thought if it were. Can you perhaps elaborate?
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by hemmert 4y ago
Thanks! It's great to read all your comments here. I appreciate a good mixture of aesthetics and self-referential logic conundrums. ;-)
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by hemmert 4y ago
That's a good measure, too. It doesn't even have to count for any viewer, it can be only for the artist – even if they don't ever view the painting after making it.
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by hemmert 4y ago
That would make a great new stamp, with lots of fine print and ever shrinking font size ;-)
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by hemmert 4y ago
That's an interesting point that got me thinking already: No, I wasn't aware of that when painting most of the pictures. I just enjoyed the process of painting. But, as you can imagine, wall space gets limited after painting numbe
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by hemmert 4y ago
Ah, I wasn't aware of that parallel – thank you!
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by hemmert 4y ago
Thank you – it's formulated too bold indeed. It's one approach to art, and I get the feeling that exploring this might be really interesting. It's also funny to see how the stamp on the backside gets all the attention. I thou
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by hemmert 4y ago
Oh, I wasn't aware of that! I thought that Show HN was for anything that I had made. I also wanted to invite people to discuss this with me (as the artist), but I could have disclosed that in the first comment, too, of course.
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by hemmert 4y ago
That's very nice, from the office curtain to the damaged poster board! :-) 'Effort' is an interesting factor – I won't neglect that I'm putting effort into the paintings. How do you decide when to press the camera&#
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by hemmert 4y ago
I'd describe it as follows: The paintings are the side effect of me having an evening painting. For me, it's all about enjoying a nice evening, seeing the art come into being – with nothing I want to depict, express or evoke – and
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by hemmert 4y ago
Thank you, for the appreciation and your comment. I was getting the feeling that the stamp on the backside gets more attention than the pictures themselves.
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by hemmert 4y ago
Ah, nice! I'll compile a page of related projects on the website (with all the interesting links from this discussion), and that will go on it, too, of course! Thanks!
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by hemmert 4y ago
I once read that art gets our brain hemispheres into a discussion. This could be it? ;)
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by hemmert 4y ago
Thank you for your comment and the appreciation of that definition - and the paintings! I also don't know what to think about AI-generated art yet, either. All of my paintings, I just keep painting until I have the feeling that they&#x
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by hemmert 4y ago
No offense taken!
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by hemmert 4y ago
I agree, not all art is semiotically vacant. At the same time, we'll never get (as the viewers of a piece) get to fully understand what the artist wanted to express – and that's the situation I wanted to evade as the artist here.
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by hemmert 4y ago
There are actually some nice robot arms painting pictures and doing calligraphy: https://www.pinterest.de/pin/brobot-desktop-robot-arm-is-pra...
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by hemmert 4y ago
Thank you, I wasn't aware of the Ideomotor phenomenon. Very interesting!
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by hemmert 4y ago
Then especially, thank you! (If you haven't, check out the links to related artworks in this discussion – many of them I hadn't come across yet, but they have a similar vibe!)
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by hemmert 4y ago
That wasn't my intention (as the artist), and perhaps we're lacking a good discussion of what art is. But I remember Scott McCloud defining it as 'everything that doesn't serve the preservance of the species'. So ma
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by hemmert 4y ago
Thank you for the appreciation, and the interesting links! I heard about the CIA story, and how they sought to quantify creativity as a person's 'ability'.
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by hemmert 4y ago
That's an interesting point that I didn't have in mind, but it's a very good question. From the discussion here I have the feeling that the mere statement 'I didn't have anything in mind while painting this' ma
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by hemmert 4y ago
Thank you for summarizing! It's also really interesting (I'm the artist) to see that almost ALL comments refer to the stamp on the backsides of the paintings, not to the content of the pictures. :-)
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by hemmert 4y ago
I‘ll add that- yes, it’s only on Telegram!
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by hemmert 4y ago
Oh, thank you for the heads-up! I put in that bottom line up front, and I also updated the privacy policy's link.
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by hemmert 4y ago
That's an interesting idea! I'm also trying to paint something nice, so when painting, I do look at the picture and say: "Ahh, this doesn't look right.", and then I go about and change something. I do enjoy painting

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