torek, 25. marec 2014

BASIC DIFFERENCES BETWEEN PICTORIAL SPACE AND PICTORIAL FIELD


     If the process of painting begins with individual units, it moves towards a structured wholeness which accumulates and projects its interiority as a living organism. In order to be able to understand the inseparable fusion of an expanding awareness with the act of painting itself, we tend to seperate such units into shape, colour and form as experienced by the viewer. Here we must differentiate between at least two ways the artist operates – one that is intellectual and conscious, and the other which is articulated through emotion – and both of which are bound together within the creative process despite their duality.
     If we consider form to be the conscious arrangement of interior content then we are referring to the aspect of pictorial space, but if we consider colour to be the primary means and material of painting which dematerialises the structured form into emotion and experience, then its particular characteristic of immanence refers to the pictorial field.
     I think of pictorial space as somewhere to construct, where problems are solved in a conscious way, whereas the impulse within the pictorial field directs me toward emotion and intuition, and especially so in the articulation of colour: the way it belongs to the body of the form, the way it liberates, the way it simply does what it wants. For these reasons I consider it vital to differentiate between conscious and immanent processes within painting, to differentiate everything else from what isgoing on in the background, and to acknowledge the distant source of unconscious, or some other sensation fromabove, or below.







Uros Paternu ©2001. Untitled, Acrylic on canvas, 80x100 cm

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