The trend in some of the contemporary movements in art, but by no means all, seems to deny this ideal and to me appears to lead to a purely decorative conception of painting.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It is a peculiar art form, but I think it's a necessary art form - and I do believe it's a noble art form.
Painting and sculpture are very archaic forms. It's the only thing left in our industrial society where an individual alone can make something with not just his own hands, but brains, imagination, heart maybe.
Painting is, I think, inevitably an archaic activity and one that depends on spiritual values.
You know I was curious - I was interested in all kinds of mystery or deeper meanings in the paintings because I myself have not analyzed why they have turned out like this or like that.
I believe that painting should come through the avenues of meditation rather than the canals of action.
I believe the reason I love painting so much is that it forces one to be objective.
The whole thrust of modern art, as far as I understand it, is expanding the role of the artist as a kind of esthetician, someone who actually spends his time, is trained in a way to deal with qualities.
My contention is that that style is just as stylized as an ornate style.
Art is subject to arbitrary fashion.
I like the idea that paintings are not representations of an artist's psyche. Making the paintings is what gives the artist her psyche in the first place.