Heres what Gustave Courbet (1819-1877) had to say about the healthy, natural desire to represent ones own time and, therefore ones own life as an artist: -To know in order to do: such has been my thought. To be able to translate the customs, ideas, and appearance of my time as I see them – in a word, to create a living art – this has been my aim. and he had these things to say about avoiding formulas: -The beautiful is in nature, and it is encountered under the most diverse forms of reality. Once it is found it belongs to art, or rather to the artist who discovers it. -Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal. and finally these things to say about finding the beautiful in the act of clear and demonstrated comprehension of ones direct experience of contemporary life: -Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it. The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired. -Fine art is knowledge made visible.
Posted on: Sat, 01 Nov 2014 00:23:54 +0000
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