“Considering the abstract and fickle nature of the art world, it’s any wonder how artists arrive where they do and why artists produce what they produce. How is success in art defined when dealing with the core of the human experience? Intrinsic impulses do not always comply with the outside mélange of benchmarks, schedules and otherwise arbitrary constructs that can easily be applied in other realms.

How does the self-taught approach compare to that of the art scholar? Training, some training, no training, does it matter? Where does natural talent factor in to the equation? What defines good art? What if the answer is simply being in better touch with intuition? Does this make a better artist? While these and other mysteries of the intangible remain, and the elusive bounty of sustaining life as a pure artist continues for many; Axel Geittmann, self-taught and ever evolving, opens up his own creative and artistic process for some light inspection.”

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