Arts and Crafts
No one will be able to answer what unique works of art are.
But determining what art is the collector does
and he wants something unique.
What others don't have.
Oscar Wilde
Unique artworks through the fusion of art and crafts.
In a unique fusion of art and craft, the artist "KD" developed new and unique artworks with their own style, based on a pen and ink drawing, via the relic too modern art, which are reproduced in real handwork.
Beautiful Prints Forgotten copperplate engravings and woodcuts of the 15th century. For a long time, pictures mistakenly shaded themselves as historical sources and offered a wealth of insights. In popular historical books and journals, pictures are usually used as illustrations to present history in a vivid and entertaining way. Behind this is often an oversimplified understanding of the nature of historical images. They see themselves as an immediate and realistic reproduction of reality, as a window to the past.
Pictures can give us information about the historical knowledge, ideas and projections of the artist and his contemporaries. They are excellent testimonies to the material culture of past and present times.
Albrecht Dürer had an impact on his contemporaries.
His woodcuts and engravings served as a model in the painter’s workshops. Dürer certainly reversed this trend, although he sets himself apart from his time and was inspired by the artists around him.
To what extent artists have perceived each other in a world that could not photographically reproduce and distribute images is in many cases uncertain. Written testimonials or collaborative work give little information about it. Grünewald contributed four panels to Dürer’s Heller Altar. Cranach was portrayed by Dürer at a meeting of the two artists. Hans Baldung Grien worked temporarily in Dürer’s workshop.
Dürer was copied, imitated, changed. Especially his graphic prints, inspired his contemporaries as well as us to own pictures
The fascination of arts and crafts
Even today, craftsmanship accounts for a large part of the fascination for art.
The early art of man, his mural painting, his jewelry culture and later the perfection of decorations on everyday objects of the early civilizations of Egypt and Greece are based primarily on the craftsmanship of their masters. In the beginning, art was in the true sense of the craft, and until the Middle Ages artists and artists belonged to the status of craftsmen. Even today, there is no question that a certain craftsmanship and mastery of creative means are indispensable, not only in the classical areas of the visual arts.
Almost 650 years after the first renaissance artists dared to make their paintings independent in their creative freedom, thus initiating the detachment of art from pure contract work, the “Bauhaus” Werkschule founded by Walter Gropius in Weimar in 1919 set itself the goal of art and design To reunite crafts.
When it comes to the fine arts of our world and their reproducibility, we have to draw a line from then until now. The range goes back to antiquity, where large statues were already carved. Today we can just copy any kind of art .... but does not art lose its spirit, its very personal aura? Art can not escape the influence of modern science and technology. Our knowledge of today and the media structure that we can use today almost eliminate the term “art” and call for a new terminology. If paintings by great artists were drawn as well as possible at that time, we can now photograph paintings or even reproduce them on the computer. Art loses its uniqueness, its certain aura, because most of it today is virtual and no longer in reality. The ingenuity of creativity has disappeared in a sense.
When we draw a picture personally in several days, we remember the individual stages and successes that we have achieved. When we copy a picture completely from the Internet and reproduce it by copying the file, we do not have a story of its own for the picture or the artwork. It is the concept of authenticity that breathes life into the work of art and that no reproduction will ever create. The reproducibility is beyond the realm of authenticity, since it will never be possible to reconstruct the story that contains a picture. But beware: we distinguish between manual and technical reproducibility. The authority of an image is not lost if we manually reproduce it.
The artist himself sees his picture as a total work of art - handcrafted with the kind of reproducibility that we use, the step goes further in the direction of his own work. Or rather, every reproduction becomes an original.
Fine arts with its own history, spirit and aura.
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The jeep between craft and art
Every piece of art has its story, but we should rather deal with the term “aura”. It accurately describes the spirit, the fire that is kindled in drawing and shaping.
With pen and ink to the paper.
As I said, we also like to be inspired by other people and artists. Every conceivable creation, such as pictures - works of art - have their own story. We return with feather and ink to almost forgotten stories and awaken it to a new living story with a new and unique aura. Each individual graphic is made into a separate new drawing signed by the artist and then adapted to the type of reproducibility we use. The uniqueness does not only depend on the moment when the artwork was drawn or seen. It is also part of the tradition that embodies it and brings it back to life. Images like these are gaining in new traits that the world has not yet seen in this form.
From the paper to the printing plate.
Of course we do not want to be printers, but we can combine products used in the printing process with the arts and crafts. The beginnings of indirect high pressure are due to the book printing, the oldest method for the production of German stamps, which is no longer used. In this production technology, the printing elements of the printing form are raised, while the non-printing parts are deepened. The typeface is reversed. We take advantage of this technique and can give our works a three-dimensional appearance.
From the pressure plate to the mold.
For the reproducibility of our artworks, we ultimately need a suitable negative form. For casting and modeling we use heat-resistant silicone rubber, it is suitable for the production of negative molds with complicated shape and gives us flexibility in the choice of materials.
With the silicone rubber we can produce one-piece or multi-part shapes, thus also shapes with smaller undercuts.
From form to an independent work of art
Here at this point it is clearly recognize how craftsmanship and art in a whole passes and fused into each other. In the further steps we connect wood (mdf) with a high-quality plaster and complete the way our reproductions to independent authentic works of art, with own history, spirit and aura.
For the casting we use a high-quality plaster, which is suitable for the production of tools and models that require the highest degree of precision and durability. For precious metals, ceramics and acrylic resins.
The most appreciated material of us is MDF. The material has a high stability and is firm. The individual MDF boards are glued with high-quality resins based on 2 components. Surfaces and edges are sanded, filled, primed and prepared with special paints for further processing.
After drying out of the individual cast reliefs, the two components are connected to each other and provided with the basic color shades as well as a small texture on the mdf base. Afterwards, the individual pictures are hand painted with watercolors and protected by a UV absorbing layer. The back is glued with carpet.
For the production we use high quality materials which are professionally applied to ensure outstanding quality and durability.
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Each hand-painted reproduction is unique in its way.
An original with its own history, spirit and aura.
A work of art that was revived by us again to new life.
A must for all collectors and art lovers.