"As a result of the decline and negative nature that comprises
the whole world of representation and interpretation in
figurative art.
Perceptivism presents to the observer a dynamic attitude towards the action and exaltation of its active
power, embracing new creations for the aesthetic vision and
emotion, and surpassing in the act of artistic contemplation the old temporary process established for visual
perception, which entails the conquest of the creating power of man as well as of the planes and the relationships in the reality itself of art.
In my book about color I point out that for an art space it is essential to exalt objectively the feeling of visual perception by means of the structure of the perceptive
matter. It consists in achieving, through the knowledge that both our feelings and our mental power provide
us, a visual objectivity. In figurative painting, the visible means that
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condition the structure are not sustained in the qualities
of color and shape themselves. Instead, the object
represented, its tri-dimensional aspect known by us by our general
experience, plays the role of weight and balance.
That is why art as it abstracted itself from representing the object known to the world that surrounds
us, encountered a new dilemma moving those material elements of painting closer through an intuition of its
values.
Perceptivism goes beyond that intuitive stage still existent in abstract and concrete
painting, and eliminates the dualism between color and shape, By revolutionizing the old rules, it creates a new realistic concept of functional
structure. Upon surpassing the old contradiction of shape and
content, it resorts to the dialectic method that recognizes the process of material
elements.
Idealists have endeavored to unify form and content in figurative art, without surpassing representative
shapes, the symbol or plastic anecdote expressed on a plastic background.
However, they have not succeeded in conciliating what is
irreconcilable. In my conception and practice of art, shape and content constitute a single real
fact, indivisible, as a result of the artistic material visible in the process of creation and invention
itself.
An art of imitation, not of transformation, does not deserve to be called art. Perceptivism does not complement with the
environment. Instead, it fosters its development. It is not the product of the environment but it is conditioned by its renovating
power.
With the new concept of structure and measurement of perception of the plastic values of
relations, I have not discovered the philosopher’s stone of art, but that all that represents the practical reality of an objective and materialistic philosophy of aesthetics. The technique consubstantiated with the same process of creation

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