Saturday, October 9, 2010

SIDE BAR: ABSTRACTION


Beauty of ABSTRACTION:

 

Such is the plastic power of the human eye and mind, that the constitution of all things that are of primary form, as the sky, the tree, the human form, give us a delight; A pleasure arising from outline, color, motion, and grouping.

 

This is partly owing to the eye itself; the best of artists - by the eye's structure and of the laws of light, perspective is produced, integrating every mass of objects into a well colored and shaded globe, so that even where an object is mean and unaffecting, the landscape which they compose, is round and symmetrical.

 

And as the eye is the best composer, so light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make beautiful. The stimulus it affords to the senses, especially to the eye, make all matter gay. Even the corpse has its own beauty; a warthog is so ugly that it's beautiful.

 

It's a general grace diffused over nature; all forms are agreeable to the eye, as is proved by our endless imitations of some of them; as the acorn, the wings and forms of most birds, the lion's claw, the serpent, the butterfly, sea-shells, flames, clouds, leaves, the mountain, the wheat-ear, the egg,,,, and even the abstraction of a painters strokes on canvas.

 

So abstract, and see true beauty!



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