Garden Gate Island (2021)
Slide show Postcard-sized Paintings (2016) Slide show Outdoor Landscape Art / Suspension of Paradise (2016) Slide show Wrestling in the Sea... with the One (2007) Slide show Playful Pieces (2007) Slide show Retrospective 1995-2002 Slide show Quick Introduction. Artway.eu - Gian Merlevede Full Listing of my paintings Art catalogue Riparian Forest: Peißnitzer Nordspitze, Germany - June 2016 See Photo Exhibition |
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Something Worth Considering...
"Will people accept this new version of me? ... I can still sing some of those songs (of 20 years ago),
but as an artist you must find fresh expressions."
"God doesn´t give us songs, he gives us seeds.
It`s like a gift. Like little revelations, like little light bulb moments"
Brian Doerksen, singer-songwriter
but as an artist you must find fresh expressions."
"God doesn´t give us songs, he gives us seeds.
It`s like a gift. Like little revelations, like little light bulb moments"
Brian Doerksen, singer-songwriter
"The arts claiming to mirror the trash in the world, only add to it."
(Die Künste, die den Müll der Welt zu spiegeln vorgeben, vermehren ihn nur.")
Botho Strauss: Lichter des Toren - Der Idiot und seine Zeit, München 2013, S. 50
"To paint is to meditate, not to compete, in fact to be a reasonable painter now one has to be almost anti-competitive."
Francis Hoyland, painter
Francis Hoyland, painter
Tabu Faith in Art
„I have noticed, as an artist with a christian faith, that if we are explicit about our faith in the public sphere – if we even mention our commitment to live a christian life – we are dismissed right away in the art world. I have been told by influential critics that if I was not so explicit about my Christian identity, I would have had a far more mainstream career. The worst thing you can do in promoting his or her art career is to be public about how faith motivates their art. To invoke the transgressive, the cynical, the elusive may be the only way to become a respected artist; needy, shock-filled, ironical work gets attention as „serious.“
The artist Makoto Fujimura in his book „Silence and Beauty. Hidden faith born of suffering“ (InterVarsity Press, 2016)
„I have noticed, as an artist with a christian faith, that if we are explicit about our faith in the public sphere – if we even mention our commitment to live a christian life – we are dismissed right away in the art world. I have been told by influential critics that if I was not so explicit about my Christian identity, I would have had a far more mainstream career. The worst thing you can do in promoting his or her art career is to be public about how faith motivates their art. To invoke the transgressive, the cynical, the elusive may be the only way to become a respected artist; needy, shock-filled, ironical work gets attention as „serious.“
The artist Makoto Fujimura in his book „Silence and Beauty. Hidden faith born of suffering“ (InterVarsity Press, 2016)
"That what hurts me, and the reason I kick about all this stuff that´s going on,
is that when you´re really thinking about it, there´s so much that could be done for human welfare,
and that would be in line with the infinity of nature, which is really the ideal,
that we haven´t even started."
John E. LAUTNER jr., former american architect (and student of Frank Lloyd Wright). Died 1994.
Citation from the publication: "John Lautner, Architect", edited by Frank Escher, p.18, Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel-Boston-Berlin, 1998.
is that when you´re really thinking about it, there´s so much that could be done for human welfare,
and that would be in line with the infinity of nature, which is really the ideal,
that we haven´t even started."
John E. LAUTNER jr., former american architect (and student of Frank Lloyd Wright). Died 1994.
Citation from the publication: "John Lautner, Architect", edited by Frank Escher, p.18, Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel-Boston-Berlin, 1998.
American photographer Berenice Abbott (1898-1991) once remarked something that I found to be very true also in my own experience as an artist:
"Looking for art, the theme gets lost.
Finding the theme is finding art."
"Looking for art, the theme gets lost.
Finding the theme is finding art."
German violin maker and author Martin Schleske (*1965 in Stuttgart) wrote:
"Only what is alive, knows thirst"
Freely quoted from his (german) book:
- Der Klang. Vom unerhörten Sinn des Lebens, (352 Seiten. Kösel-Verlag, München 2010, ISBN 978-3-466-36883-9
- www.schleske.de
Browse my bookshelf - Selection of favorite books at Goodreads.com
www.goodreads.com/user/show/60569222
www.goodreads.com/user/show/60569222
My Masters Dissertation (only available in Dutch language):
'Centre Lost Art Society - The Critique on modern art of the Austrian Art Historian Hans Sedlmayr [1896-1984]
(Masters dissertation, 131 pp., written in Dutch language, 2000, Ghent University, Ghent/Belgium).
Original title in Dutch: 'Centrumverloren kunstwende: De visie van Hans Sedlmayr op de moderne kunstcultuur.' (Universiteit Gent, 2000)
https://lib.ugent.be/en/catalog?q=%22Gian+M+Merlevede%22&search_field=author
https://lib.ugent.be/en/catalog/rug01:001835725
'Centre Lost Art Society - The Critique on modern art of the Austrian Art Historian Hans Sedlmayr [1896-1984]
(Masters dissertation, 131 pp., written in Dutch language, 2000, Ghent University, Ghent/Belgium).
Original title in Dutch: 'Centrumverloren kunstwende: De visie van Hans Sedlmayr op de moderne kunstcultuur.' (Universiteit Gent, 2000)
https://lib.ugent.be/en/catalog?q=%22Gian+M+Merlevede%22&search_field=author
https://lib.ugent.be/en/catalog/rug01:001835725
L'Abri ideas library
Online available and free downloadable mp3-lectures!
The ideas library: Honest answers to honest questions about the reality and relevance of the Christian faith, and today´s modern culture.
www.labri-ideas-library.org
Online available and free downloadable mp3-lectures!
The ideas library: Honest answers to honest questions about the reality and relevance of the Christian faith, and today´s modern culture.
www.labri-ideas-library.org
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