Josef Volsa, Autor bei Artis Umbrae

What Is Fine Art, Anyway?

Few terms in contemporary photography are used as casually, as frequently and as confidently as “Fine Art”. At the same

Part 3: Why Have We Learned to Distrust Beauty? After spending so much time thinking about kitsch, I began to

Part 2: Does Universal Kitsch Even Exist? In the first part of this series, we explored a deceptively simple question:

Part 1: What Is Kitsch? A Question Every Artist Should Ask During one of my many journeys through Italy, I

Most people who travel to Ravenna are travelling into the past. The city is one of Europe’s great artistic treasure

The history of technological innovation follows a remarkably consistent pattern. First, people insist something will never work. And the moment

People actually ask me quite often where my ideas come from. Which creative techniques I use. Whether I work with

The impertinence to look the other way It has become one of the art world’s most cherished habits to treat

Perhaps the valued reader has noticed that public debates repeatedly flare up around the question of what art is —

Perhaps the valued reader has already encountered my handwriting in various entries within these Cogitationes. Whether in guestbook entries at