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The Hidden Sphere (of Artistic Concerns) Cecil Orion Touchon 35 1a)Dissolve into the Universal Harmony while working and your work will be a benediction to all who witness it. 2a) The people may be attracted
to intense color, loud sounds or shocking movements.
3a)Those things which are
great in the arts don't reveal all their secrets in the first experience
of them.
[1] ”The present painter is concerned not with his own feelings
or with the mystery of his own personality but with the penetration into
the world mystery. His imagination is therefore attempting to dig into
metaphysical secrets. To that extent his art is concerned with the sublime.
It is a religious art which through symbols will catch the basic truth
of life.
Quoted in Thomas B. Hess, Barnet Newman, exh. cat.
(New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1971)
[2] For me a work must first have a vitality of its own. I do not mean a reflection of the vitality of life, of movement, physical action, frisking, dancing figures, and so on, but that a work can have in it a pent-up energy, an intense life of its own, independent of the object it may represent. When a work has this powerful vitality we do not connect the word Beauty with it... Between beauty of expression and power of expression there is a difference of function. The first aims at pleasing the senses, the second has a spiritual vitality which for me is moving and goes deeper than the senses. Because a work does not aim at reproducing natural appearances it is not, therefore, an escape from life -- but may be a penetration into reality, not a sedative or drug, not just the exercise in a pleasing combination, not a decoration to life, but an expression of the significance of life, a stimulation to greater effort in living. Henry Moore, The Sculptor’s Aim
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