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      • BOGOMIL'S COURT
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      • BOGOMILS LANDING
      • BOGOMILS MONASTIC RETREAT
      • BOGOMIL SUNRISE 2
      • DETERIORATION OF MIND OVER MATTER
      • DORILUS DEUS
      • ERNSTHAFTES SPIEL IM INNEREN ERDTEIL
      • FLY-OVER WITH BOGOMIL'S SHUTTLE
      • FOMORII INCUBATOR - IN THE BEGINNING
      • FOMORII INTERIOR II
      • GREY DAY AT THE FACTORY
      • HOUR OF THE COCK
      • ISABELLE DE VOUTHON
      • LADY Z - THE GOLDEN ANGEL
      • MAGNA MATER
      • MONUMENT TO THE UNBORN WAR HERO
      • NUBIAN DREAM
      • OFFSPRING OF TIAMAT
      • PABLOS LAST CONCERT
      • PARTHENOGENESIS II
      • PORTRAIT OF YOUNG BOGOMIL
      • QUIET AFTERNOON IN THE STUDIO
      • RAVEN
      • REVELATION 20
      • SELFPORTRAIT WITH THE CRITICAL EYE
      • THE SURROGATE MOTHER OF WISDOM
      • THE VISITOR
      • YGGDRASIL
    • DRAWINGS >
      • DRAWING DETAILS
      • DRAWINGS SLIDE SHOW
      • A MAD SUMMER NIGHTS DREAM
      • ALPHA AND OMEGA - THE RECONSTRUCTION OF BOGOMILS UNIVERSE
      • ANTIPODES
      • AXIS MUNDI
      • BACKLANE SERENADE
      • BOGOMIL'S AVATAR REVISITED
      • BOGOMIL'S DUCKHUNTING MASK
      • CHRISTAN FANTASY PORTRAIT
      • CTHULHU MONUMENTS
      • EMRAKUL
      • EROS THANATOS
      • EROS THANATOS II
      • EYE OF THE DARK STAR
      • EYE OF THE DARK STAR - JOURNEY THROUGH THE WORMHOLE
      • FAMILY REUNION
      • FOMORII GENERAL
      • FOMORII KING AND HIS QUEEN
      • FOMORII STORMTROOPER
      • JABBERWOCKY
      • KRIX KRAX SPIRIT GUIDE
      • MEMENTO MORI
      • MISS T
      • MUMMENSCHANZ
      • OUROBOROS PERPETUAL MOTION MACHINE
      • OUTSKIRTS OF NECROPOLIS
      • PORTAL TO BOGOMILS UNIVERSE IV
      • SELFPROPELLED BEASTIE SEEDING MACHINE
      • SHEPHERD OF THE SPHINX
      • SPIRAL RAPTURE II
      • THE BEAST OF BABYLON
      • THE BIRTHDAY PARTY
      • THE COVID DOCTOR HAS LANDET
      • THE EYE OF THE FOMORII
      • THE FERNAL ALIEN PLANT
      • THE WIZARD OF EARTH SEA
      • TRIPPING THROUGH BOGOMILS MIND
      • UNTITLED A4 2018-08-01
      • UNTITLED P 1010381
      • VINDOBONA ALTARPIECE I
      • VINDOBONA ALTARPIECE III >
        • VINDOBONA ALTARPIECE III details on Issuu
      • WALDRAPP'S TOMB
      • WILLIAM'S WINTER - A TALE FROM THE PRAIRIE
      • YMIR AT REST
    • DIGITAL ART >
      • BOGOMIL VARIATIONS
      • DEEP DREAM
      • DIGITAL ART on Flickr
      • DREAMWORLD
      • MYSTIC UFO
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    • FLICKR SLIDE SHOWS
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    • A LETTER TO NATALIE
    • APOCALYPSE DELAYED
    • ARE YOU LOST?
    • Art of the Mystic Drawings and Words
    • AS THE SPIRITS MOVE ME
    • BARE-FACED MESSIAH
    • CIRCLE OF THE SUN - ABOUT THE SACRED
    • CODEX SERAPHINIANUS
    • CORONA VIRUS RESOURCES
    • ENCOUNTER ON THE S-BAHN
    • GARDEN OF FERNAL DELIGHTS - Otto’s Dream
    • GOING BANANAS AT ART BASEL MIAMI
    • JACK OF SHADOWS
    • ONE WINGED ANGEL
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​A LETTER TO NATALIE

A LETTER TO NATALIE
​

Late November 2016 I received a e-mail from a Humanities student:
Hi, I love your work and am doing a project in my humanities class about it! If you could contact me by email so I could ask you some questions that'd be awesome, thanks
​Natalie
Otto Rapp: Graduation - 1982Graduation - 1982
​Dear Natalie, here are my answers - perhaps it was catharsis to actually put this down as a form of self-reflection:

1. Who or what is your biggest influence/inspiration for your work?
There were many, at first is was Dali, then I learned more about the artists of my own Viennese heritage, so I was influenced by Rudolf Hausner, Ernst Fuchs (who later became my friend) - prior to this, I wrote an essay about the Vienna School. Then also by many other Surrealists, with Max Ernst being a great influence in works since the mid-seventies. 
2. What awards or honors have you received?
Degree:
Bachelor of Fine Art (with Great Distinction)
1982 - University  of Lethbridge
Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada   
Awards:
1979 - Prize in Studio Art  
The Faculty, Department of  Art, University of Lethbridge
1979 - Beta Sigma Phi Scholarship
Beta Sigma Phi, University of Lethbridge
1980 - Certificate of Merit  
The Minister for Advanced Education and  Manpower, Province of Alberta, Canada

3. What is the hardest part of drawing and painting such intricate designs, and what do you do if you get artist's block?
The hardest part is starting with a blank canvas or sheet of paper. I draw from inspiration, so I need to 'open the gate' and this comes from making initial marks which suggest the way a piece is going to be, one step at a time. I thought about this often, how I could explain my process, and finally came up with this:
 ABOUT MY WORK
"These are universal archetypes that may be found deep inside our collective subconscious. While seemingly extraterrestrial and alien, they are also strangely familiar. I take the viewer into an area that they might have been before in another existence or  have entered in their dreams. It is a 'method in this madness' but everything arises  by elimination of conscious guidance. The work grows seemingly by itself, like frost flowers on a windowpane. "
Artist block: as I mentioned above - I make random marks, swoosh paint around etc until I find something that points me in a direction. Any successive work is built on that, and as long as it is a trip of discovery (not knowing how it is going to turn out) I retain interest - but once I know how the story ends, I have a hard time finishing the work.  
4. How did you get your start in painting/drawing or what was the moment where you became passionate about it?
Already as a child I used to draw fantasies - my grandfather, who also took me frequently to museums and art galleries, used to have paper and sharpened pencils ready for me. I cannot remember even having any toys other than a small silver Mercedes wind-up car. The 'other world' I created became my playground. I always drew well, painting was initially a problem, but I taught myself the way of the masters, eventually. By the time I entered University (as a mature student) I was already accomplished, but there I acquired technical skills such as printmaking, and practicing figure drawing was of great help.
5. What is the best compliment you've received about your work/what comment have you received that has made you most proud?
A art critic, professor and art historian, later museum director in several large institutions in Canada and the US,  J. Brooks Joyner wrote a glowing article (in the Albertan, this paper does not exist anymore) about a show I had in Calgary in the early seventies. At that time he was also a lecturer at the University of Edmonton and director of the Nickle Arts Museum in Calgary. We eventually became friends. I was saddened that he recently passed away. I posted a large part of his text on my blog: Tales from the crypt 
6. What is your goal as an artist (for yourself and/or for the world around you)?
No goal, really, other than to explore a Alternate Fantasy World - mostly for myself (ever since my childhood) but if others find something in my work that helps them enter into their own fantasies, then I succeeded. I don't tell people what they should see in it, but encourage them to pick out universal archetypes that enable them to spin their own fantasies. I admire also Zdzisław Beksiński (in these past 2 decades or so) and his way of not putting titles to his work: he does not even want to suggest by titles what people should see. 
7. What is your favorite method for creating your work?
definitely drawing. It is the most direct and fastest way to loose myself in another world. Painting often becomes too technical and takes too long: I am actually very impatient. 
8. Are there any interesting stories/facts you could share about how you got to where you are today?
this should be contained within the above answers
9. Which of your personal characteristics do you think has the biggest affect on your work?
the way I can easily loose myself in daydreams by drawing - what concerns me (as far as my art production is concerned) is that in these past few years I can increasingly put myself into a state of meditation that does not even require the crutch of art. 
10. What makes you different from other artists of the time or in your genre?
I like to think that I am unique: while I readily admit to learning from the best, I don't 'copy' them. Regretfully I see some students listening very carefully to lectures (esoteric, sacred geometry and such), then start applying these religiously - worse part when they look over each others shoulder and starting to copy from each other. I don't find it hard to meditate myself into a state of visions, but understand this is not easy for others. But I also want to stress this: Drugs are not the answer. Many of my peers rely on this crutch. I say what Dali said: I AM THE DRUG

POSTSCRIPT:
maybe I should clarify # 10:
about students - I should stress that it is very important to learn all the skills, theories and rules that go with it. But doing things by rote of what you absorbed learning, you won't be no better than average. Once you are familiar with the rules, you will then be able to bend or break them (but not knowing them just makes you a fool). You become an individual and stand out above the crown by making your own rules, adapting that which you have learned and making it your own. 
I also forgot the conclusion: never assume that you are perfect - because then, you stagnate and at worse, become a copy of your self (your past). Always grow, always learn, always explore new things. People should be surprised every time you created something new.  Nothing worse than being known for having painted clowns your entire life.

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  • HOME
    • OTTO RAPP - ART OF THE MYSTIC
    • INTRODUCTION >
      • ABOUT MY WORK
    • PRINTS AND MERCHANDISE >
      • DESIGNS BY OTTO RAPP >
        • DETERIORATION OF MIND COLLECTION
        • PHONE CASES
        • SCATEBOARDS
        • SHOES
        • TIES
        • AOW FASHION
        • PAOM FASHION
        • DESIGN BY HUMANS
        • MY WEAR STORE
        • PIXELS SHOP
        • RAGE ON
        • SOCIETY 6
        • THREADLESS
        • VIDA FASHION
      • ART OF THE MYSTIC PRINT STORE >
        • FAA PIXELS PRINT SHOP
        • LIMITED EDITION PRINTS
      • DEVIANT ART
      • ZAZZLE >
        • RIJKSMUSEUM >
          • ALBRECHT DÜRER
          • JAN DAVIDSZ DE HEEM
    • ESSAY - THE ART OF THE MYSTIC
    • BOGOMIL'S UNIVERSE
    • TALES FROM THE CRYPT BY OTTO RAPP
    • CURRICULUM VITAE >
      • CV Documents
      • EXHIBITIONS
    • CONTACT
    • CIRCLE OF THE SUN
    • PHOTOALBUMS
    • ARTWORK SLIDE SHOW >
      • Flickr Slide Show embed
  • ARTWORK
    • PAINTINGS >
      • ABANDONED BY HIS MOTHER
      • ADAM IN PAIN
      • ALL TIED UP IN KNOTS
      • BOGOMIL ALIEN LANDSCAPE
      • BOGOMIL LANDSCAPE
      • BOGOMIL'S AVATAR
      • BOGOMIL'S CEREMONIAL STAGE: CASPAR AND HIS PROPS
      • BOGOMIL'S COURT
      • BOGOMILS JOURNEY
      • BOGOMILS LANDING
      • BOGOMILS MONASTIC RETREAT
      • BOGOMIL SUNRISE 2
      • DETERIORATION OF MIND OVER MATTER
      • DORILUS DEUS
      • ERNSTHAFTES SPIEL IM INNEREN ERDTEIL
      • FLY-OVER WITH BOGOMIL'S SHUTTLE
      • FOMORII INCUBATOR - IN THE BEGINNING
      • FOMORII INTERIOR II
      • GREY DAY AT THE FACTORY
      • HOUR OF THE COCK
      • ISABELLE DE VOUTHON
      • LADY Z - THE GOLDEN ANGEL
      • MAGNA MATER
      • MONUMENT TO THE UNBORN WAR HERO
      • NUBIAN DREAM
      • OFFSPRING OF TIAMAT
      • PABLOS LAST CONCERT
      • PARTHENOGENESIS II
      • PORTRAIT OF YOUNG BOGOMIL
      • QUIET AFTERNOON IN THE STUDIO
      • RAVEN
      • REVELATION 20
      • SELFPORTRAIT WITH THE CRITICAL EYE
      • THE SURROGATE MOTHER OF WISDOM
      • THE VISITOR
      • YGGDRASIL
    • DRAWINGS >
      • DRAWING DETAILS
      • DRAWINGS SLIDE SHOW
      • A MAD SUMMER NIGHTS DREAM
      • ALPHA AND OMEGA - THE RECONSTRUCTION OF BOGOMILS UNIVERSE
      • ANTIPODES
      • AXIS MUNDI
      • BACKLANE SERENADE
      • BOGOMIL'S AVATAR REVISITED
      • BOGOMIL'S DUCKHUNTING MASK
      • CHRISTAN FANTASY PORTRAIT
      • CTHULHU MONUMENTS
      • EMRAKUL
      • EROS THANATOS
      • EROS THANATOS II
      • EYE OF THE DARK STAR
      • EYE OF THE DARK STAR - JOURNEY THROUGH THE WORMHOLE
      • FAMILY REUNION
      • FOMORII GENERAL
      • FOMORII KING AND HIS QUEEN
      • FOMORII STORMTROOPER
      • JABBERWOCKY
      • KRIX KRAX SPIRIT GUIDE
      • MEMENTO MORI
      • MISS T
      • MUMMENSCHANZ
      • OUROBOROS PERPETUAL MOTION MACHINE
      • OUTSKIRTS OF NECROPOLIS
      • PORTAL TO BOGOMILS UNIVERSE IV
      • SELFPROPELLED BEASTIE SEEDING MACHINE
      • SHEPHERD OF THE SPHINX
      • SPIRAL RAPTURE II
      • THE BEAST OF BABYLON
      • THE BIRTHDAY PARTY
      • THE COVID DOCTOR HAS LANDET
      • THE EYE OF THE FOMORII
      • THE FERNAL ALIEN PLANT
      • THE WIZARD OF EARTH SEA
      • TRIPPING THROUGH BOGOMILS MIND
      • UNTITLED A4 2018-08-01
      • UNTITLED P 1010381
      • VINDOBONA ALTARPIECE I
      • VINDOBONA ALTARPIECE III >
        • VINDOBONA ALTARPIECE III details on Issuu
      • WALDRAPP'S TOMB
      • WILLIAM'S WINTER - A TALE FROM THE PRAIRIE
      • YMIR AT REST
    • DIGITAL ART >
      • BOGOMIL VARIATIONS
      • DEEP DREAM
      • DIGITAL ART on Flickr
      • DREAMWORLD
      • MYSTIC UFO
    • WERKVERZEICHNIS
    • FLICKR SLIDE SHOWS
    • OTTO RAPP PHOTOGRAPHY
  • VIDEOS
  • EXHIBITIONS
  • BLOG
    • THE MYSTICS BLOGGER BLOG
    • HIVE BLOG
    • TWITTER
  • GALLERIES
    • VISIONARY ART GALLERY >
      • VISIONARY ART EXHIBITION
      • OTTO RAPP
    • Gallery atKinsky
    • ORIGINAL ART WORK - INFORMATION
  • READING CORNER
    • A LETTER TO NATALIE
    • APOCALYPSE DELAYED
    • ARE YOU LOST?
    • Art of the Mystic Drawings and Words
    • AS THE SPIRITS MOVE ME
    • BARE-FACED MESSIAH
    • CIRCLE OF THE SUN - ABOUT THE SACRED
    • CODEX SERAPHINIANUS
    • CORONA VIRUS RESOURCES
    • ENCOUNTER ON THE S-BAHN
    • GARDEN OF FERNAL DELIGHTS - Otto’s Dream
    • GOING BANANAS AT ART BASEL MIAMI
    • JACK OF SHADOWS
    • ONE WINGED ANGEL
    • OTTO RAPP - INTERVIEW ON ILLUSTRATION TOOLBOX
    • PETER SCHLEMIEHL
    • THE VIENNA SCHOOL OF FANTASTIC REALISM
  • LINKS
    • ABOUT COPYRIGHT
    • ART MARKET NEWS
    • MY RIJKSSTUDIO COLLECTIONS
    • NEWS MAGAZINE
    • OTTO RAPP on HIVE
    • SANDBOX
    • SAY NO TO FREE ART
    • WORLD CLOCK
  • CALENDAR
  • CORONA VIRUS INFO
    • CORONA VIRUS RESOURCES
    • CORONA VIRUS BLOG
    • MASKS vs RESPIRATORS Information
    • Coronavirus - Häufig gestellte Fragen
    • FAQ: FFP2-MASKEN, MNS und ABSTANDSPFLICHT
    • TKP BLOG - SCIENCE + POLITIK ÖSTERREICH
  • EASY ZOOM