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Walter Pall
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This tree is owned by Horst Heinzlreiter - it was finally styled by Michael Rinnerhofer. Michael asks what I think of it. Here's my response: I told Horst the following: This is clearly "Rinnerhofer", it's modern mainstream style executed excellently, very good. For my personal taste, it's far too precisely styled, clearly man-made and no attempt to create a real tree, but a successful attempt to create a very good modern bonsai - and it certainly does NOT look like a real tree. Currently, this is considered the pinnacle of bonsai art. The question is whether this will remain so, or if a shift will occur, as has always happened in art. However, coexistence of different bonsai styles on equal footing is foreseeable and almost already achieved. The bonsai community is, as always in art, several steps behind and must catch up with taste. That means we are not enemies because we work with clearly different tastes, but we are allies - bound by art and we respect what each other does and respect each other as individuals. The modern, somewhat derogatory "plastic style" is completely misunderstood in my opinion. It is seen as the result of very long and precise work, and what emerges after days and weeks is the artwork. I believe it is NOT, but rather an intermediate phase leading to the artwork. That is, the trees remain like this for two to three years. Then the wire is removed. Then they are allowed to grow without wire for another two years. Needles are plucked back so that all clusters are the same size. Too long candles are partially broken off. Minor corrections are made with thin tension wires. However, the tree slightly reverts to its wild state - and suddenly looks "real", authentic. As if it were shaped by nature through a stroke of luck. That means the hand of man becomes less and less visible. Somehow it looks almost "naturalistic", only much more beautiful and just slightly sloppy. That is the artwork towards which everything is heading, in my opinion. A big mistake made then is to "style" the tree again and take away its painstakingly acquired naturalness. Of course, one can have a completely different opinion without having to argue.
