The Cosmic Photo Challenge: Art for art’s sake
The Cosmic Photo Challenge: Art for art’s sake
3 pigeons 3 raftsmen 3 giraffes Thursday Trios
While searching for photos with coplimentary colours I stumbled across the “negative button” in my photo editing programm (Photoscape) and hence the following artworks. I stuck to the primarily blue/orange range. Lens-Artists Challenge: Complementary Challenge
This picture is hanging in the waiting room of my doctor’s. It keeps drawing me in. Why does my doctor show the scene of an orgy to his patients? Or am I watching the wrong movies and reading the wrong books and this is just … Continue reading Yes – but What Does It Mean?
Thursday Trios
Roundabout (traffic circle) art outside of Sindelfingen. Playground art in Frankfurt. Neighbourhood art in Mannheim. Thursday Trios
“We have art in order not to die of the truth.” “Wir haben die Kunst, damit wir nicht an der Wahrheit zugrunde gehen.” or in the same vein: “Absolute knowledge leads to pessimism. Art is the remedy for this.” “Das absolute Wissen führt zum Pessimismus: die … Continue reading Living on a Tiny Planet in a Small Solar System of a Not so Big Galaxy in One Universe in the Multiverse
Sometimes it’s details in a piece of wrought iron that catches your eye – in this case helped by a ray of sunlight.

At other times it’s the large statement of a gate – the left one is the gate of the old Jewish cemetery in Hemsbach (the sign says: Be careful – branches might break and fall!), the right one is the side entrance of the Peterskirche in Weinheim.


Smaller details can be an eyecatcher whether it is a ornate element (of probably cast iron) or the rust having settled decoratively.


Wrought iron can be used to create art.


You don’t believe it’s wrought iron? Look at the raven’s feet!
A combination of wrought iron and cast iron (or possibly only cast iron but how could I resist of showing this ancestor of Henryl?).
Die Kunst gibt nicht das Sichtbare wieder, sondern macht sichtbar.
Paul Klee
I found two – rather different – translations of this quote. Then I tried my hand at it myself. Pick your favourite translation:
Art doesn’t reproduce the visible but rather makes it visible.
Art doesn’t reflect the visible but reveals.
Art does not reflect what is seen, rather it makes the hidden visible.

And for the pure fun of it:

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