An Imply of Tension Sun to Moon

by Terrance DePietro

Title

An Imply of Tension Sun to Moon

Artist

Terrance DePietro

Medium

Pastel - Pastel

Description

If the mid-1980s marked a beginning, a threshold entered, then the '90s might be analogous to an unfolding of a carpet onto a cobbled stone path; that was timelessly placed for a next arriving traveler...And it all started to make sense; even if it would take another twenty years to tell of it...

Without mounting all, or at least several, images from each grouping, series, or specific period much of the story's imply remains in shadow...Yet, it is believed that with the further inclusion of works people who are engaged themselves in image making, especially of an abstract nature, will find enough simile to recognize 'stages' of development.

Such staging becomes helpful when trying to trace connections between work of today and the historical to which it 'shows familiarity'. With that in hand an artist may find that their own work implies issues and concerns that attracted artists of old and there may be some surprising revelations uncovered; if nothing more than food for thought, most any viewer (collector) may find new meaning, implication or purpose in the type of images that attract their attention. Which leads us to 'pre-disposition to form'.

CG Jung talked about it, William James and others would be open to it and Wilhelm Worringer incorporated it in his thesis: 'Abstraction and Empathy', 1908. Everyone is effected to it but not all pay much attention to it. But for the abstract painter it is the 'where' that they seek and when it is recognized and cultivated it takes on new and original shape and assign. The forms accept our 'projections' (so to speak) and in those projections narrative is found; so then imagination whispers 'questions'.

Questions are a mythical and magical gift (when our attitude toward them is open, et al); they more lead us to more questions and yet in the wake of them we look back and realized how far they have taken us...And how much we have grown, thanks to them. Without pushing that point more: it shows itself in the skirting between representational images and non-objective abstractions

Parsing between the two styles may not be a practice that turns-on a gallery owner but the freedom to do so is immeasurable, supreme, to an artist! Especially an artist searching, acutely, for a 'niche' that scratches their itch!

And when a painter listens to 'what the image wishes to be', they are really listening to themselves...But from the 'them self' that is trying to be; the potential within that seeks to be conscious of itself, without preemption. There is no price for the experiences of freedom or self...And the year was 1990.
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