Understanding Art

Picasso, the dominant artistic personality of the 20th century and one of the creative geniuses of all time said – Why do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of a bird?

That must perhaps say it all, to the one who has got the point of it. Having said that, let me just say to the layman and the artist alike that most of the time what’s happening is that we are trying to put the word “ART” in the huge and heavy lexicons we carry and get a meaning out of it.

We humans try to prove our intellect by showing that we know all and apologetically try to fit in “ART” in that know all and jump to give an explanation to it. – Let me tell you that some people say that “ART” is a form of expression like writing and speaking etc. and as we decipher and interpret writing and speaking, we’re meant to decipher art too. Sadly for the artist and the observers, it’s not so. At least that’s not the case with Abstract Art.

If we have to understand Abstract Art, then perhaps we must start by trying to understand the artist making Abstract Art.

The Mind of the artist is like the roots of a tree, all the time absorbing into its system, to feed the rest of the tree, from whatever is available in its surroundings. Through a chain of reactions with whatever is available in the system beforehand, a vision is created which goes into his work and that vision now unfolds into a space and time. What has been visible is not necessarily what was assimilated from the surroundings.

The Artist has painted what arose from the depths of his inner being and through handling spatial representation it has lead to an image that is plastically clear.

The deficiency lies in the temporal deficiency of language. Yet if you have made a connection with an abstract of art it is because the artist distorted a natural form to the extent that it was reborn as nature in the observer.

Rajwant Kaur Molly
Artist and Academic
MFA, BFA, Sir J J School Of Fine Arts, Mumbai

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