Working with pure forms, starting from the pure idea void of symbolism or allusions, the artist is
a creator of an abstract thought - complex.
Not exact matches
Man as we know him today, man
of metaphysics,
of abstract thought, the
creator of his own environment, the space - traveller, the moulder
of himself, the man
of God and
of grace and
of the promise
of eternal life, precisely this man who is radically distinct from any animal and who at the moment
of man's origin, though perhaps very slowly, took a path which led him so far away from all that is merely animal, yet in such a fashion that he carried with him the whole inheritance
of his biological pre-history into these realms
of his existence remote from the animals, was there when man began to exist.18 And what now is historically and externally manifest, was then present as a task and as an active potentiality.
Now when
creators can start making enough money off
of digital - only comics to
think about them in more
abstract ways, we may see some really interesting products show up.
In leaving the exhibition, my
thoughts keep returning to the three small paintings and how
abstract painting has uniquely developed through the guidance
of creator.
This figure, often fragmented, sometimes even completely
abstracted, takes on various forms, from the human face, at once raw material and object
of symbolic representation, as with Benglis's objectifying caresses, to the full body as place and tool
of the trial and pleasure
of repetition, as with Nauman's amateur choreography, bordering on the absurd, to the traces and physical prints left by the artist -
creator (or the «art worker» in his service), as with the irregular random geometry
of LeWitt, to the peers (Donald Judd) and tutelary figures in the history
of art who inspire Flavin's evanescent structures... Now a disenchanted statement «Double Eye Poke» offers a challenge to the being
of perception and
thought.