Tuesday, July 18, 2006

Inner impressionism of things.


”..At its best impressionism achieved a certain focus unknown to western art up to that time in your terms, offering a break through from cohesive objective form into the moving vitality that gives objects say there durability and shapes their images. Using the art form the artist in a strange way broke through line, destroying what would seem to be the literal continuity of the objective shape. At the same time a few lines were used to hint at a variety of unseen apparently unstructured objects. In that regards the line became in the hands of a master, a strong symbol hinting at other realities that lay within the seemingly distorted portrayal of objects....A thorough knowledge of form was needed so that it could be represented by line or colour…. At its best impressionistic art by its lack of indelible delineated form suggested all form and the vitality that gave it force..".