Recently, I received an email with the following text:
Hello, I would be interested in your artistic CV (Academy, etc.). Best regards.
Apart from the fact that the law of politeness requires my name after the "Hello", I actually found this email so interesting that I want to make a blog post out of it.
Honestly, I had to chuckle when I opened this email. I have never been asked this question before, but I understand that it is important for some people.
Before I get to the CV, I would like to ask the following question:
Does attending an academy make my art more valuable, better, different?
If you think yes, then please write to me why.
I have always loved painting, like many artists who discovered this passion as children.
However, creative professions are often not encouraged due to the lack of recognition in our society.
Only those with a degree or specific grades are considered good and trusted.
However, there are people who have found out for themselves that not everything needs to be dictated from the outside to be good.
Especially in art, it is the playfulness, the experimentation with different materials and media, and the freedom to make mistakes that do not need to be immediately corrected by a professor.
On the contrary, it is this self-created freedom that makes art valuable in my eyes.
Because it is unrestrictedly itself, created by the hand of a person - the creator!
Whether others like this creation or not is not important at first.
What am I getting at?
I am self-taught (like Bill Taylor, the American painter and graffiti artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, or Vincent van Gogh), and I taught myself everything through books, videos, a lot of diligence and work, and a course at the Wildkogel Academy with Peter Feichter.
I am very proud of this because even renowned artists do not know how I create certain techniques. (Bubble-technique)
My childhood wish to become an artist was fulfilled, in principle, only at the age of 49.
Fulfilled by an illness of my left eye that forced me to reconsider everything.
It was only when I courageously quit my job and returned to painting intensely that I recovered. At my first vernissage, I sold nine artworks, and that was my YES to art and to continue on this path.
Many exhibitions at home and abroad followed, as well as workshop requests that gave me the courage to continue. A path that certainly was and is not always easy.
In January 2023, I opened my gallery with a studio on 120 square meters, and I am very proud of that.
I receive so much positive feedback on my art and have several art collectors who greatly appreciate my diversity.
Next year, I will be working as a lecturer at the Free Academy Römerstein, which I am very much looking forward to.
My goal is to encourage other people to trust themselves again, to feel themselves again, and to remember how unique each of us is!
What do you think? Feel free to write to me.
Yours, Andrea Hibler
P.S.: By the way, I googled the person... ;-) They have an academic background!
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