Having absorbed what it would be like to be an artist in Italy, from living for some time as a painter in Italy, I see de Chirico's Metaphysical painting in the lineage of Giorgione's Tempest, and the idea
of poesis.
Not exact matches
«Revelatory» discourse is «
poesis» which we, given the needed critical judgment, can receive and live out as «testimony» in turn.40 We will try to show that this dialectic, carried out over generations, closely corresponds in the retrospective mode to Ricoeur's account
of Gerhard von Rad's «tradition history» and, looking forward, to the philosopher's understanding
of Jurgen Moltmann's «theology
of hope.»
That came hours later, in the form
of an electronic query during a Sunday midday conversation held at the museum: «Why does contemporary art choose to privilege kitsch, frivolousness, and the banal during a time that demands profound answers with respect to interiority, spirituality, and
poesis?»
Though one
of Turner's achievements is the spectacular derangement
of the assumptions
of ut pictura
poesis, his work is nonetheless inseparable from a ruined, sedimented field
of textuality, even when it seems remotest from language.
/ curating and organising 2014 - 15 Didactic Tools, co-curated with Sam Fox (Hydra
Poesis), artist lab in November 2014, exhibition Fremantle Arts Centre 2015 2013 fractal shale, Tape Projects, Melbourne 2012 fractal shale, Perth Institute
of Contemporary Arts Performance Space
Horace's dictum that poetry does what painting does (Ut pictura
poesis) underlay much
of 18th - century thought, which Turner thoroughly absorbed as evidenced by his innovative synthesis
of the two.