Modern Art, Sweet or Sour
Modern Art, Sweet or Sour
Watson-Guptill Publications | 1958 | ISBN: N/A | English | 152 pages | PDF | 30 MB
Art is the expression of visual ideas; music appeals to the sense of the audible; and man's thought reaches into the world of the abstract. Art evokes thought that in turn generates emotions, as by the means of music, where emotions, emerging from their secret compartments, foregather thoughts. For the artist, abstract thinking that does not find its matrix in the emotional is worthless; to the artist the world of abstract ideas offers no nourishment. Whatever lies outside the pale of his experience is for him of no consequence. Everything that materializes itself in the painter's mind concerns representation, and abstract art is truly a representation of Nothing. As always, disengagement from the optical must end up inexorably in the blind alley of Nothingness.