Viewing art
is an art itself. When we go to a museum or gallery to view the works, we want
to see and feel a new view of our world and be empowered and nourished to go
out and accomplish our goals. Or if we just want to feel good by being in a
pleasant environment, a few hours walking through the galleries can bring us to
a pleasant state of mind. We become involved with the artists history, the why
and how and when the art pieces were created and the influences that sparked
the creative outcome.
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| Spring Marsh Song, 36x36 acrylic on canvas |
A few days
ago we were exchanging some paintings at a medical venue when a fellow artist
said, “Joel, I think I know what the painting is, tulips.” She was very pleased
with her guess because the title of the painting included spring, Spring Marsh
Song. The pleasant moments from my childhood often emerge in a mystical
surprise as the marshes near my family home slips into a painting. The spring
sounds of red winged black bird songs used to leave
a lasting imprint that appears in a painting many years later.
Picasso
said, "Everyone wants to understand painting. Why don’t they try to understand
the song of the birds? Why do they love the night, a flower, everything that
which surrounds man, without attempting to understand them?”
Artists call
upon their environments that have made an influence on their subliminal levels which
can influence the creative outcome. When the viewer places tulips in her
question, “what is the painting all about” she makes a personal contact with the
painting and the artist.
This drive
to understand a painting by relating it to images that seem “real” in our
personal history helps viewers to feel in control of the sometimes abstract
world around us. The artist expressing sights
and sensations abstractly will continue to respond creatively from floods of
input as in a spring walk in a very busy marsh.
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| What is it? (see below) |
Joel
(We call it Earth Cycle, 18x24, acrylic on linen)
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