Only he can be an artist who has a religion of his own, an original view of the infinite. - Friedrich von Schlegel, c.1800
At the turn of the eighteenth century, the German Romantic philosopher Friedrich von Schlegel described the German artist as "righteous, ingenuous, thorough, precise and profound... thereby innocent and a little clumsy." In this perfect conjunction of character traits Schlegel saw the ideal candidate to create a new mythology for a philosophically exhausted world. This notion - that the artist's personal vision could offer new archetypes, fresh allegories, and alternative explanations of the visible world - has reappeared in the drawing projects of Franz Ackermann, Mark Manders, and Matthew Ritchie, each of whom has embarked upon a multiyear endeavor of making drawings that exemplify, describe, or map out new structures through which to perceive the world.
At the turn of the eighteenth century, the German Romantic philosopher Friedrich von Schlegel described the German artist as "righteous, ingenuous, thorough, precise and profound... thereby innocent and a little clumsy." In this perfect conjunction of character traits Schlegel saw the ideal candidate to create a new mythology for a philosophically exhausted world. This notion - that the artist's personal vision could offer new archetypes, fresh allegories, and alternative explanations of the visible world - has reappeared in the drawing projects of Franz Ackermann, Mark Manders, and Matthew Ritchie, each of whom has embarked upon a multiyear endeavor of making drawings that exemplify, describe, or map out new structures through which to perceive the world.
- From the exhibtion Drawing Now: Eight Propositions
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