Thanks to Everyone!
We did it! 46 backers with 3 days to go. Great thanks to everyone! I think there are still a few pledges to be made so it looks like we’ll exceed the goal amount.
I’d like to provide you with two excerpts from a book entitled The Artist’s Reality; Philosophies on Art, by Mark Rothko. He’s finishing an essay on the myths art has represented over time and how art functions. I’m using this to speak particularly of the role of abstract art.
“Here an example from mathematics may be helpful. The letter x in algebra is definitely an abstraction in relationship to the numbers with which it can intermingle as a factor. It is true that the numbers are also an abstraction, yet x is even a further abstraction from the qualities of the numbers. Yet this letter functions in all of the calculations as a real quantity. In other words, we have a symbol which admittedly represents the unknown. Yet our faith in the system is so great – that is, our faith in the absolute relationships of all quantities – that we can affirm this symbol of the unknown as a definite, real and calculable element. We might say that the Greeks understood the quality of the unknown, but so great was their faith in order that the unknown, although always symbolized, functioned for them as a part of reality, and entered as a real attribute in all their real relationships.”
“Now, in the world of the painter, his sense of the essential and the infinite must be realized plastically. He must express his notions of reality in the terms of shapes, space, colors, rhythms, and the other plastic elements which we have previously described, for they constitute the langrage of painting, just as sound, timbres, and measures constitute that of the musician, or words and sentences that of the linguist. Or rather, the painter must represent them by means of colored shapes arranged in certain rhythms constituting certain ideated and controlled movements toward a particular effect, this effect or end being the subject of his picture.”
Thanks again for your generous support. I’m looking forward to painting.
Chaucer
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