The Hidden Sphere (of Artistic Concerns) Cecil Orion Touchon 4 The creative order unfolds unendingly.
Though we are rarely aware of its
unseen workings,
Who can say what is the origin of
this harmony?
[1]...As I said: Harmony is not the same for everyone. It is a matter of conception. To be sure, Natural Harmony is present in nature, but equilibrated relationships of the abstract represent another conception of harmony. That the concept of harmony is relative perfects itself with time, is demonstrated not only by the succession of art forms, but to some degree by the life of every artist. For it is precisely the beauty of the artist's efforts that he continually strives toward a pure expression of harmony with each new vision of beauty, he discovers more clearly that the harmony to be found in existing things is so powerful that the visual representation is incapable of rendering it. Natural Reality and Abstract Reality -
[2] His creation springs, not from nothingness, from something other than
Himself, from a not-Him, but from His fundamental being, from the potencies
and virtualities latent in His own unrevealed being.
an Essay in Trilog Form, Piet Mondrian- page50 |