Picture of the Day
Sidewinder
Acrylic on canvas, 16"x 20"
One of our problems growing up in the Western world is too much dependence on the rational for understanding. We think we have to understand something rationally to "get it." In this sense the mind becomes a barrier to understanding.
Both music and anstract art can reach us in ways and places that representational paintings do not. Hence, many times the real meaning of a work is not found in what it is per se, but in how it feels.