A view thoughts on my passion of painting and art as such

In a beautiful work of art, being and consciousness, reality and thinking, the general and the particular merge. But they don’t do it conceptually, only sensually. If they were to agree conceptually, as the result of a reflection process, we would not be dealing with art, but with philosophy. And what we experience would not be the beautiful, but the true. In reality, however, according to Hegel, the beautiful is only a sensually blurred premonition of the truth.
First of all, the mind appears as a subjective mind, as the consciousness of every single person. This consciousness is touched by the mind, but not filled. In Hegel’s language, our subjective mind has only “the form of the spiritual.” We can feel, imagine and think inspired – but we cannot yet distinguish right from wrong and therefore feel our way through life. However, if our will becomes more and more intelligent in the course of world history, this also has an impact on others. A culture and a story begin to take shape. In Hegel’s words, the objective spirit appears, the man-made world outside of our ego. Pure psychology has become a spirit-filled culture. What was mere “form” in the subjective mind is here mere “content”. In culture everything is determined, ordered, fixed, institutionalized and so on. As “external” to the inner space of the ego, the objective mind is the antithesis of the subjective mind. The ultimate goal remains the synthesis, the realization of the absolute spirit. Art has already sensualized it, the Christian religion suspected it – but only philosophy sets it free.

Gerhard Richter has developed a visual language, a new symbolism. In the sense of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s and Walter Benjamin’s philosophy of languages, he has expanded the cultural space of the world by a form of expression. Richter’s language is very understandable and accessible, which can be measured by its success. I have decided to learn this “Richter language” for several reasons. It allows me to sharpen my mind and my perception. I learn to express myself, communicate and connect in new ways to people. It is both a private search movement of learning and further development as well as the hope to exchange ideas with the world and generate new impulses.