Title
Freed from the Shroud of Reason's Contain
Artist
Terrance DePietro
Medium
Painting - Watercolor
Description
Forthright in its titling, as well so in its configure of distinct subjects that beg explanation - if only by way of ambiguous imply - this image is an investigative springboard into the 'substance', stuff (urstuff) we are tempted to relegate to the abysmal realm of unintelligibility...Given time, the implications arising in forms are a virtual narrative of imagination's potential to link mind to inquisitive voyage of explore...
What apparently is buried away as unintelligibility is really the old understanding of ambiguity's purposiveness; as well the potential of imagination to unleash itself to an accepting 'attitude', mindset, ready to accommodate the serendipity of its relating process.
The use of the word 'unintelligibility' has placed a virtual moratorium on a dominion of investigation that grew out of Modernism's (itself a serendipitous advance) evolve. And from where Abstract Expressionism's major impact, to free image of hitherto formalist constraints, allowed the process of image generation new cognitive links to be recognized and legitimized.
All of which substantiating a view that Modern Art had only then reached a Midpoint of Functionality rather than its presumptive telos. A view of which might be difficult to substantiate philosophically or academically given the current established analysis; but one that becomes more than evident to the laborer of aesthetic explore deep within the process.
The substitution of anything less than first-hand explore - ostensibly experimentation, directed investigation - amounts to doctrinaire speculation. Which is doubly suffered, in this case, due to the emulation of an antithetical principle which has become the marrow of the institution, qua industry of art. And by its academy, which for decades now (a generation plus) refutes the directed investigation, waging mutiny, of which should not be allowed, since its ubiquitous tentacles are equally deep penetrating the culture's psyche, spirit and omnipotent purse!
Yet in absence of a re-think what to become of the un-concluded investigation? Especially that what was at heart of the investigation equates to nature's dynamo of creative process, which is still churning out its powers and purpose (yet with no one to observe, recognize, interpret and objectify it to the culture body at large)...
A social intentionality that conceptualizes the Behaviorist paradigm over and above an Individuated model advances not humanity but soulless institutions - fallacious notions to feed hubris' inescapable nemesis!
All of which flies in the face of humanity's trajectory toward individuation; advancing along in evolve, slowly, unconsciously since the dawn of civilization. The heartfelt inclination only being given token social substance with the signing of the Magna Carta (even its extension, the unprecedented Constitution of the United States, has only merely budged open the threshold - awaiting still a unified embrace of its principles). A principle embracing the 'individual', in itself, is most daunting to civilization's evolved design; evidenced by the swift and largely unchallenged embrace of Behaviorism, encourage by a behavioralist approach, honed by psychology, spewed by Public Relations, add publicists.
And yet it is wondered: that the lid being unlocked and the contents tasted: can it ever be anesthetized?
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