Writing Practice
Writing Practice
Writing is an extension of Authistical Art and Bogdan Jensen’s artistic practice.
Alongside painting, drawing, fine art prints, and memorial portraiture, Bogdan writes essays, art guides, studio notes, and critical texts on figurative painting, remembrance, disability, dignity, collecting art, and human presence.
The writing does not sit outside the work. It clarifies the same questions that appear in the paintings: how images hold memory, how bodies carry history, how art can restore attention, and how a human presence can remain visible without being reduced to category, identity, diagnosis, or symbol.
Some texts are practical and written for collectors. Others are more philosophical, personal, or critical. Together, they form a written architecture around the Authistical Art practice.
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Essays
The essays are the most reflective part of the writing practice.
They explore the emotional, philosophical, and cultural questions behind the work: ownership, memory, perception, disability, dignity, the ethics of looking, and the role of figurative art in a world increasingly shaped by digital images and abstraction.
These texts are not written as detached commentary. They come from inside the practice of painting, collecting, remembering, and looking.
Art Guides
The Art Guides are written for people who want to understand art more clearly before buying, collecting, enquiring, or living with a work.
They answer practical questions without reducing art to commerce. Topics include original artworks, fine art prints, collecting art, memorial portraiture, materials, process, framing, and the emotional hesitation many people feel when approaching original art for the first time.
These guides are meant to build trust, not pressure. They give collectors language for what they may already feel but not yet know how to name.
Studio Notes
Studio Notes are shorter reflections from the working life of the practice.
They may include process observations, material choices, works in progress, exhibition preparation, life drawing sessions, or thoughts that emerge from direct painting and live observation.
Where the essays develop larger arguments, the studio notes remain closer to the immediate act of making.
Publications
The Publications section gathers external texts, published articles, interviews, catalogue essays, and selected writing outside the Authistical Art website.
As Jensen’s writing practice develops further, this section will document where the work appears beyond the studio and the website: in magazines, journals, exhibition contexts, and other editorial spaces.
Selected Writing
Selected Writing is a curated page for editors, curators, publications, and readers who want a concise introduction to Jensen’s writing voice.
It includes a small selection of essays and articles that best represent the current writing practice: critical, personal, direct, and rooted in the same concerns as the visual work.
Themes in the Writing
The writing practice returns to several central themes:
- figurative painting and direct observation
- making art as a human practice
- memorial portraiture and remembrance
- disability, dignity, and the human figure
- collecting art and art patronage
- original artworks and fine art prints
- the ethics of looking
- the home as a place of attention and sanctuary, not neutrality
- human presence beyond identity or category
These themes are not separate subjects. They form one larger inquiry into what it means to look at, remember, and live with images of human presence.
Writing and the Visual Practice
The paintings often begin with encounter: a model, a body, a pose, a memory, a person, a historical absence, or a human presence that refuses to disappear.
The writing begins in a similar way.
A question appears and demands attention. Why does owning art still matter? Why does collecting feel intimidating? What is the difference between an original artwork and a fine art print? What does memorial portraiture restore? Why do some images stay with us longer than others?
The writing gives these questions space. It does not explain the paintings away, but it opens another entrance into the same world.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Bogdan Jensen write about art?
Yes. Bogdan Jensen writes essays, art guides, studio notes, and critical texts on figurative painting, remembrance, disability, dignity, collecting art, and human presence.
What is the relationship between the writing and the artwork?
The writing is part of the same practice as the artwork. It expands the questions found in the paintings: how images hold memory, how bodies carry history, and how art can restore attention to human presence.
Are the texts written for collectors?
Some are. The Art Guides are written especially for collectors, buyers, and people who want to understand original artworks, fine art prints, memorial portraiture, and collecting art without intimidation.
Are there external publications?
The Publications section is intended for external articles, interviews, catalogue texts, and published writing as the writing practice develops.
Where should editors start?
Editors, curators, and publications should begin with Selected Writing, which gathers a concise selection of texts that show Jensen’s voice, themes, and critical direction.