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THE JOLLY ART OF PAINTING
The art of painting shall always exist! From the early ages of mankind til now people have drawn and painted for various reasons. Animal research has shown that other high primates, such as for instance, chimpansees enjoy moving rhytmically with paint filled brushes on white surfaces. The animals show little interest in the completed works . It centres on the work itself. We see the same with small children, even before they start drawing bugs. The most pure form of painting art. Not aimed at result; there is only "pleasure in the painting."
The media, the policymakers and even some artists try to let us believe something else but, the art of painting is very much alive! Emphatically: painting -and the art of drawing is possibly , of all disciplines, the most direct and most adequate way to realize visual pictures. Imagine: every high-tech movie starts with a drawn stoyboard! When we look at the history of humanity and the visual arts then we see a long day with painting art in the leading role. Only the very last second appear technical paraphernalia like cameras and computers. We now live in a time that humanity still has not recovered from his amazement about these new gadgets. So many new roads! So many possibilities! It's not all silver that glitters. There's nothing better then paint. A painter gets an idea and realises that on canvas the following second. A brush in the hand and: pats! No keyboards, cables or closing times of the development centre.
Painting is the best way to get in touch with the open. To say the unspeakable, to think the unthinkable and to see the unseeable.
So, up to the painter's workplace! Arrived there, one first has to dump the idea that 'all has been done'. The western thinking has been fixed for two thousand years on the belief in a completion moment. Christianity promises us the return of Christ, Marx learns the' self-elimination of capitalism' and in the art of painting we see Piet Mondriaan who had the notion to have found 'De Stijl'. Malevich understood the ridicule of the self declaring final point explaining modernism; as 'chairman of the world space ' he takes a brave decision after he painted the black square: he returns to the recognizable figure and to the plasticity. Just continuing...
But still confusion continues to be large: after modernism we think postmodernism to discover that after the completion moment of modernism the line between two points has stopped to exist. And now? Where are we going? What is the purpose, what is our direction? Aren't we doling through an endless nothing? Also with the brush in the hand we discover that these questions cannot be answered. Yet, the art of painting offers solace. What remains is the pleasure of painting and the continuing amazement about what we get to see. Advance begins by a continuing analysis and evaluation of the primary painting process, releasing the realized rational thoughts and to continue working. Creating without theory and without plan. The not knowing is the most precious possesion of the artist.
Peter Stufkens
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