FRONT AND CENTER

by John Curuby




 

courtesy Alexandre Calder
president@bostonartclub.com

We are all Artists.  It's that simple.  Let me tell you how. Every individual has multiple modalities of perceiving the 3-D world.  For those with eyes there is a conscious vision of the infinite present moment.  These perceptions have been aggregating in our minds since our eyes first opened.  They are the inventory with which we make sense of our external world and construct our memories and imagination.

Many have incredible memories.  They can recall much of what they have seen.  No one can recall everything.  Have you ever thought of what you recall in your memory verses what was actually there?  If you do, you will begin to understand how you are an Artist.

If you stand anywhere and describe what you see, this process would help you understand which elements are most important to your perceptive mind.  The bits and pieces, colours and shapes that you describe, are the same as the elements that artists choose to put in their works.

Everyone has an individual way of filtering the input of the infinite world.  If you are with a group of people staring at the same place, each individual will have a unique memory of the place derived from identical input data.

What you have read above will help you come to an initial understanding of any work of art by a critical analysis of what elements an artist chooses from their environment.  The first step to understanding the infinite in art is that we all perceive the same way.  We all artistically choose the foci of our world. 

There are two distinct types of paintings: those that are derived from real vision, and those that are derived from imagination/memory.  The next blog will investigate works that are made by the artist directly from his environment.