Leipzig Football and Blurry Art

Saxony Line I-I

I was traipsing around my old home in Leipzig this afternoon looking for something to get me started when I stumbled upon the football scene. I was dismayed to find the FC Lokomotive Leipzig, or VfB Leipzig if you will, plays in the 5th tier of the German football league system. We are far removed from our 7-2 thrashing of DFC Prag to claim the Viktoria Meisterschaftstrophaee!!! But, nonetheless here is FC Lokomotive now.

But, I am not here to talk football. That will come in due time. I was looking for a starting point for my Saxony line of thinking. Traipsing around and galavanting through the streets of Leipzig proved fruitless and attracted too much attention with my incredible flowing locks so I took to a more quiet and reserved place and checked on the news at a local pub. I listened for awhile as men and women gabbed over things when I happened upon a conversation that caught my attention.

I overheard a few men discussing whether or not Dresden's own Gerhard Richter was truly the world's greatest artist. I enjoy art so I took a look at some of Richter's work. I began to question my eyesight because of his "blur" technique. How was I supposed to know that his blurring was intentional. I said to myself, "self, you must get some glasses because this beautiful artwork is blurry". Apparently though, I had not said this to myself because a feisty little tween, who ironically looked like an unblurred version of the painting, informed me that it was intentional. "The blur", she said "was done in order to nullify the subject in order to make it difficult to understand. The painting of the photograph intensifies the plastic nature of painting". With that she walked away.

I was left feeling a little bit nullified myself. I began to feel a bit grumpy at the pretentiousness of the little girl and my complete and utter lack of understanding of this art. But, then I began to become a bit more cheery as I thought to myself, now I have two more subjects to look into, art and nullification. Ah, the study of beauty is such a rich and enjoyable subject when one has the leisure to perceive it!