Interview with Ruth Ander, The Sublime comes home.

    Here we have the interview with Ruth Ander, who kindly granted us some of her time in order to discover both her work and thoughts. A clever and fascinating artist that will no doubt surprise you all. Just thank her for taking part in AmalgamArtes.

From the Nothe, Ruth Ander, 2014

Artistic Justice

 I am far from being a good art historian, I am even far from being a intelligent person. I am ignorant of many, many important things concerning art. But also, I am getting bored with reading wise people showing off their art skills, telling to everyone that they are connaisseurs of the whole art world. Last example has been a supposed discovery of a chinese artist, Chan Hwee Chong.  “Art with Capital Letters” “unsurpassable” “He had to be asian”. He is a completely unknown artist for me and I do not want to underrate either his background or his work but it’s time to shut some mouths (and keyboards) up. Everybody knows what is Faber-Castell. You and me have ever had a pen of this trademark. In order to show their pen’s quality, they made a deal with Chan Hwee Chong by which he had to use those pens for making a specific portraits. These specific portraits are:  Girl with a Pearl Earing  (Vermeer), Self-Portrait (Van Gogh) and Mona Lisa (Leonardo da Vinci) through a tremendous technique. It all begins in a central dot, a unique spiralling line starts growing up building the picture. Certain diversions and pressure make shadows, shapes, and spatial depths through which the original portrait is re-designed. See below some pictures of it: