Lorena Fleury

To let the eye stray over a palette, splashed with many colours, produces a dual result. In the first place one receives a PURELY PHYSICAL IMPRESSION, one of pleasure and contentment at the varied and beautiful colours. The eye is either warmed or else soothed and cooled. But these physical sensations can only be of short duration. They are merely... See more

Formas que antes pareciam representativas, como continentes e ilhas, são abstraídas para revelar que mesmo a ilusão da forma tem uma grande influência na mensagem extraída da pintura. Para Bowling, “o tema da pintura é a tinta”, afirmou o filho do artista, Ben Bowling, em 2024.2 A ilusão de significado tem sua base na percepção dos elementos... See more

1) Either form aims at so limiting surfaces as to fashion of them some material object; (2) Or form remains abstract, describing only a non-material, spiritual entity

“the Hemingway effect,” whereby those who purposefully interrupted the completion of a task not only experienced better recall, but exhibited better rates of completion

“A negritude não é mais bem expressa no sentido literal pela pintura de um rosto negro do que o é por uma linha negra”1, escreveu Frank Bowling em 1970. Não existe um símbolo que represente a experiência da negritude mais do que outro símbolo. A abstração é tão eficaz quanto a figuração na construção do significado negro, talvez porque nenhuma das... See more

The soul being one with the body, the former may well experience a psychic shock, caused by association acting on the latter

The soul being one with the body, the former may well experience a psychic shock, caused by association acting on the latter . For example, red may cause a sensation analogous to that caused by flame, because red is the colour of flame

A painter, who finds no satisfaction in mere representation, however artistic, in his longing to express his inner life, cannot but envy the ease with which music, the most non-material of the arts today, achieves this end. He naturally seeks to apply the methods of music to his own art. And from this results that modern desire for rhythm in... See more

Such an art can only create an artistic feeling which is already clearly felt. This art, which has no power for the future, which is only a child of the age and cannot become a mother of the future, is a barren art