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“Romanticism is precisely situated neither in choice of subject nor in exact truth, but in a way of feeling.” – Charles Baudelaire, 1846

When I first encountered Max Frintrop’s paintings, I immediately perceived them to be an ironic, tongue-in-cheek comment on the history of painting. With painting’s obituary haven’t been written several times over the past 150 years, this was my instant go to. It therefore took me by surprise when he told me that, there was no such a thing as ironic distancing in his paintings, that every stroke and every splash of paint was intended as an unmediated and …