Mercurial Neptunian is one of the main protagonists of contemporary art. His work and his writings make him the last great thinker of the 20th century in the field of colour. Pictures trace threads of collective memory that resist erasure and hold the weight of history.
We do not see things as they are: Images are human beings. The wonderful thing about thinking visually is that it is so far away from tenebrism to just think artsy.
Subjective knowledge always intercedes in the processes that bind the hand to the eye.
Louise Whiteley, Nature 455, 468 (25 September 2008)
We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images.
Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.
Good art should have legs to run away the material world.
If you get a good picture, you'll be happy, If you get a bad one, you'll become an artist.
Surely no one sensible takes this jargon seriously?
If you get a good picture, you'll be happy. It's a kind of survivor aesthetic.
Beautiful drawings are suspected of just being appealing rather than profound.
By all means do Art.
How to be an expressionist philosopher? Der Blaue Reiter entered the public eye with the publication of a programmatic almanac in 1912 with a bold sense of mission.
The signs of language transgress abstraction's code of ineffable silence and unreadability. Good abstract works are timelessness unconventionality gone crazy. The sentiments expressed by this face are precisely that demand for empathy which modernist abstraction had to renounce.
A limitation in coping with abstraction presents the greatest barrier to doing mathematics.
Art is ultimately subjective, so that regardless of how "good" or "bad" we are told it must be, we must had some fun with it. Subjective complexity invites the viewer to explore each image closely and hunt out the imagery, while at the same time to be immersed in its luxurious colors and forms.
A mass of barely significant pictures explaining little.
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