You are viewing a single comment's thread from:

RE: Alacritas

in #art7 years ago (edited)

Yes. I find paintings which are obviously rooted in reason quite boring.
Edit: The word "often" was missing (should be: "often quite boring"), and that bugged me.... Then again, the edited sentence may bug me too.

Like I said, mine aren't and this one is, in that sense, no exception.
Then again, paintings which are rooted in nothing can be equally boring.

You call this something else The Now, I have no name for it. The way I see it, it is not meant to be studied, spoken of, nor defined. That sort of abstraction brings it back into human structure, which aims to label and define everything and anything.

I think it cannot be explained nor understood through words, for, unless these words be poetry, they make it all theoretical, which, in turn, makes it disappear.

Sort:  

That's why we make poetry, music and art: to enter realms beyond thoughts and language. Nevertheless, I believe abstraction is a tool that can be very helpful to better understand the nature of our reality. And understanding is not a discipline limited to labeling and defining.