Jan Esmann: The Artist

Jan Esmann is one of the leading artists of the contemporary figurative painting in Europe.

Three Healers, 2007. 115 x 150 cm. Oil on canvas.

"Contemporarity" is marked by a paradoxical alliance between the most advanced academic intellectualisms and the most incompetent forms of artistic expression. This is undoubtedly so because intellectuals and artists live in fear. Thus artists and intellectuals ally themselves with those from whom they fear the least. Art-criticts ally themselves with artists that have no talent at all, and artists ally themselves with art-critics that have no understanding of art at all.

The artistically valid trends within contemporary painting have turned towards a renewed interest in the craft of figurative painting. Not because we adore the old masters, in fact we don't care about them one bit, but because it is the only way forward. It is the only way out of the alliance between intellectual arrogance and artistic incomptetence that is the aftermath of postmodernism.

In the name of freedom of expression it has become fashionable to detest competence. This is strange. Lack of skill is the opposite of autonomy, for lack of skill always restricts ones ability to express oneself. I mean, if you don't even know the alphabet, how can you even begin to talk about freedom of speech?

Contemporary art is of course no longer modernist art or postmodernist art, but post-postmodernist art, and as such a renewed interest in the lost craft of figurative painting, that modernism and postmodernism killed off, is only natural, though it is also a very elitist tendency within the so-called "contemporary" art scene. As contemporary post-postmodern artists we have to reinvent craftmanship in a new form of figurative painting. Only this way can we move art beyond the pompointellectual selfsatisfaction of postmodernism and post-postmodernism.

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