der Lärm
Arts & Crafts - Detroit, Michigan, United States
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der Lärm roared into existence during the spring of 1990, a renegade band of Detroit-based graphic designers and painters, artists burning with passionate angst, and fed up with the lackluster, antiquated and obesely cheese-filled remnants of the "golden age" of advertising which maintained a sweaty vice-grip on the creative output of the "commercial" or "applied" arts, as well as the lethargic, top-heavy monolith of "fine art" criticism which floated high above mortal perception in the heavenly ether of hyper-intellectualized elitism. der Lärm fervently modeled itself after the modernist movements of the early Twentieth Century, a time when the greatest creative minds of an era banded together and splintered apart again and again in an attempt to break ties with the perceived nostalgic aesthetics of the past and constantly re-define the very nature of art. Groups like Die Brüke, Der Blaue Reiter, the Futurists and the Vorticists were the first punk rockers, owning and manipulating the long-sacred tenets of truth and beauty for themselves, damn the past. Taking cues from his absurd admiration of those first romantic masters of artistic dissention, one of these brave pioneers, Thewes developed a style some have dubbed, Retro-Futurism. After years of fighting to remain true to his creative values, Thewes stands as the last of these brave idiots, the last der Lärm boy. Lurking about the environs of the dead city, the bleak urban landscape known to many as Detroit, he is often seen rummaging through piles of debris with Jaspar, his faithful sidekick/dependant offspring, and/or one or more of Jaspar's obedient sibling minions, Mika, Josh or GoGo, in search of sustenance and scavenging material for his decaying yet darkly epic creations.also http://derlarm.deviantart.com
