The grid works — like all of Gaines» work — are more rooted in philosophy than in
the creation of some aesthetic experience.
Not exact matches
However, to paraphrase Martin Buber, while they may accompany the event they do not constitute it.4 Our
aesthetic sensitivities, important as they are in
experiencing life to the full, are a part
of the world, a part
of creation.
In The Dynamics
of Creation, Anthony Storr, the British psychiatrist, contends that an individual who «fears love almost as much as he fears hatred» may turn to creative activity not only out
of an impulse to
experience aesthetic pleasure, or the delight
of exercising an active mind, but also to defend himself against anxiety stimulated by conflicting demands for detachment and human contact.
My
creations are representations
of the
Aesthetic, the Provocative, and the Raw emotions
of the human
experience.
It is an
aesthetic that links many
of the women artists who feature in this issue, including Barbara Hepworth (1903 — 1975), whose forthcoming Tate Britain exhibition celebrates not only her long life
of radical experimentation (both in the
creation of her artworks and also the way they were to be
experienced by the viewer), but also how important an international figure she became, with exhibitions across the globe from a relatively young age.
Rauch doesn't go about incorporating his
experience like some
of his older forebears, Gerhard Richter or Sigmar Polke; they, like him, grew up in the East and plotted their
aesthetic self -
creation from a point
of departure left over from official culture.