They say that the first form of grated technique was invented by Max Ernst and is considered originally as the surrealistic technique. This is not ju… - Alfred Freddy Krupa

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They say that the first form of grated technique was invented by Max Ernst and is considered originally as the surrealistic technique. This is not just an "inverted" variant of ink drawing (positive-negative) but a technique that speaks with a completely different visual language. Maybe I could say that this is in my personal opinion (!) above all a supple expressionistic technique, where the expression is extremely fine put/render through strong contrast and energetically (more or less) scratch of the scalpel on the ink-coated surface of paper or cardboard.

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About Alfred Freddy Krupa

Alfred Freddy Krupa (Krūppa) (14 June 1971, Karlovac, Yugoslavia) is a Croatian contemporary painter. He is one the best known European members of the global Modern Ink painting movement. Since 1990 Krupa is known for both exhibiting his European New Ink Art works together with writing an articles and essays from the field of an art theory (predominantly related to New Ink Art movement) published nationally and internationally.

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Alternative Names: Alfred Kruppa Alfred Krupa

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However, terms such as “hidden space dimensions,” “weird curved spaces,” “duality,” “mirror symmetry,” and others found in the physical theory of strings are exactly the terms that we have to apply if we want to accurately describe some of the arts (by certain art theorists “traditional and non-contemporary”) approaches and techniques such as this basic calligraphy and ink painting (Sumi-E) in particular. How to interpret it? Where does this timeless contemporaneous state come from? It is possible to correctly interpret it if we recognize and acknowledge the next creative mechanism: the authentic “artistic mind,” that is, when it functions in synchrony with the assumed multidimensional “reality,” behaves (“vibrates”) according to the nature and structure of this reality (here it would be the assumed “string,” which is then its own structure/architecture) apparently spontaneously (like surrealistic automatic drawing and painting?), pulling those lines that, as enlarged one-dimensional strings, describe “gravitational forces and the most logical paths through seemingly empty and non-existent space” on the paper surface in an attempt to present the motif essence.

I love the freedom of creation, which (I hope) is visible in my works, and only one who has enough knowledge can afford freedom. You can not deal with high mathematics if you have not mastered the basics, adding up and subtracting, so it's about something similar with painting.

I always like to look where it is rarely looked. I do not like taboo topics and easy rejections. I like to find out, check, conclude on my own ... to get to know "foreign" cultures and different civilizations, a global view. For this reason, nothing is foreign to me. I do not consider myself associated with a single cultural tradition. Every human tradition is also mine. I am trying to determine myself as a citizen of the world, because so I see the future, and not in the separations based on race, nation, or religion. A contemporary artist must necessarily be a free thinker, and for a free thinker there is no dogma or taboo theme.

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