Now comes the reckoning! Now we shall enslave all these mediocre kitschmongers and teach them to venerate the German spirit and to worship the German God.This is how the modernist composer Arnold Schönberg expressed his enthusiasm for the breakout of the First World War in a letter in 1914 to his friend Alma Mahler. Those mentioned were his colleagues Bizet, Stravinsky and Ravel, who were admittedly on the opposite side of the war, but who had fallen out of favor ...
7. oktober 2024
On the green and cooler north side of Madeira is the small town of São Vicente. If we walk up the hillside, high above the church spire, we find the farm of Leonel Dias and his wife Elda Garcês named A Casa Estrelícia-Dourada Garcês.The 5.000 m2 property consists of more than 1300 m2 of vineyards, including mill and cellar, and the remaining property is an orchard for local fruit trees as well as four spaces for stay, which make up ...
30. mai 2023
The World Wide Kitsch Competition for classical figurative painting aims at placing humanistic painting in the spotlight. For the seventh annual, the competition received more applications than ever before, but it also had the most strict jury it has ever had. Only twenty-one painters reached the final round and after a tough decision, the jury selected two paintings for the Landscape and Portrait awards respectively. One of them being “The Pond at Sunset” by Sebastian Martinez Fadic, a symbolist painter from ...
6. januar 2022
The World Wide Kitsch Competition for classical figurative painting aims at placing humanistic painting in the spotlight. For the seventh annual, the competition received more applications than ever before, but it also had the most strict jury it has ever had. Only twenty-one painters reached the final round and after a tough decision, the jury selected two paintings for the Landscape and Portrait awards respectively.One of them being Shaun Roberts, an associate professor at the Stephen F. Austin State University, ...
26. desember 2021
The American kitsch painter Luke Hillestad aims at making pictures that hold and stretch the audience’s attention and heart. His skills for painting and storytelling was recognized last year, as he won the Jury’s Choice Award for Composition in the 2020 World Wide Kitsch competition. Now, the 2021 WWK competition has recently been launched.Hillestad has studied at the Nerdrum School. It was through the philosophy of Odd Nerdrum that Hillestad started identifying as a kitsch painter, and not an artist. ...
19. oktober 2021
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