EVOLUTION - revisiting my old painting after visiting my friend Daniel Friedemann

“What is Man? Man is a noisome bacillus whom Our Heavenly Father created
because he was disappointed in the monkey.”
― Mark Twain

^{Detail - EVOLUTION}

PREQUEL

A couple of days ago I visited the studio of my friend Daniel Friedemann. It is always interesting to chat with him about art. We have a lot in common on that subject, just as we have very diverse opinions about everything else, particularly politics. But that is not what this is about. He had produced some very fine paintings in the past, and is still very prolific. He showed me a giclee print of a work he sold long ago, and then a new version of it he is working on, while we were discussing how to paint in the old-master mische-technique. I admired his patience to work on a rather large canvas, reworking a subject he dealt with before. I said I could not easily do that, particularly if it involves such painstaking work - he told me he figured it would take him on and off about a year to get it done while working also on other pieces.

This whole conversation made me think. I have some paintings in my past that had been gone long ago, and all I have from them are some scans of analog photos I had taken back then. I feel now that I would want to repaint them, perhaps even in a larger format than the original one. Like, I am doing that currently with one of my "lost" drawings where only a very poor photo exists.
There would be some changes of course, to keep it interesting. The worse thing that could happen is that I get bored with just the process, so there has to be something new and exciting to keep me going. So perhaps I will tackle that as a future project.

EVOLUTION
Hey Arnold, I was just wondering ...... ?

^{acrylic on canvas - 1976 - 20x28 inches - 51 x 71 cm
prints available at my Pixels Store}

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Changing the subject again, here are a few more photos from Daniel's Studio. The 'clutter' of his worktable resembles mine, lol.

Daniel is the son of the late Ernst Fuchs who used to be a inspiration to my work. I had the pleasure of being Ernst Fuchs studio neighbor for a few years at the Palais Palffy in Vienna.

^{with Ernst Fuchs at the Cafe Palffy, which does not exist anymore}I jumped from one subject to another, but somehow it all hangs together - my early years in Canada, where I tried to work in the style of the Vienna School, the home where I came from, and eventually returned to after decades abroad.

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Bonus photo, since I am reminiscing:


^{with Peter Gric in Toledo, Spain, 2013
photo by Vesna Krasnec}