The Art of Now
No one knows how they played music thousands of years ago, but we know how they painted, sculpted, crafted and built. The artist’s sources can be traced back 37,000 years. That’s a very deep well to draw from, a very old tradition.
‘The work of art is born of the artist in a mysterious and secret way. From him it gains life and being. Nor is its existence casual and inconsequent, but it has a definite and purposeful strength, alike in its material and spiritual life. It exists and has power to create spiritual atmosphere; and from this inner standpoint one judges whether it is a good work of art or a bad one.” Kandinsky, Concerning The Spiritual in Art, 1925
The time of the art object is always now. In art all things in common are contemporary. Art exists in the time-free zone. The art object is a vehicle for spiritual transport. The art object is a time machine. The art object is representative of the other worlds of perception/experience. Did you know the Australian aborigines believe the world is dreamed, sung, told, and painted into being? And if the dreams, songs, stories, paintings stop the world will return to chaos. This is like the theory of entropy in thermodynamic.
The Salamanca: DC#B: blue, orange, red. I had to move a complex of notes from part one into part two on the lower right. The reel has to go round and the picture has to “work.” This painting reminds me of Rockport, Massachusetts where I grew up, Cliffs, quarries, slag heaps, granite piers, hanging gardens, stacks of wooden labster pots, and studios made out of old fishing shacks. An artist colony during the 50’s and 60’s.
