The sensations that we perceive when we see a pictorial, sculptural, architectural or graphic work have been provided by the fact of looking at them, of contemplating them; as well as the music he gratifies us with his listening and literary writing with his reading. In any case, a work must always notably affect a part of the senses, and when that happens, humanity gives it the quality of art.
In the beginning, the anonymous creator carries within him a productive originality that is the core of his being; and if he becomes aware of this originality, an aura of the extraordinary is formed around him (as Nietzsche expressed it) and it is then that the one who was an incipient creator becomes an artist and his work becomes art.
Albert Camus said that “only the artist knows how to look” and one thinks that the meaning of that sentence posed in reverse could be more reasonable; In other words, in order to become an artist (pictorial or graphic) it is essential to know how to look in order to see. Even so, what should be mandatory for all of us who are observers, is to maintain great prudence when the temptation to appear enlightened pushes us to make a general statement about a facet of culture, thus throwing us into a wild and complex abyss of the conceptual expression, both abstract and figurative.
For those who are in the habit of seeing known art and detecting the anonymous one, it is highly advisable to go to any call that contains intentions to show something to encourage some of the senses and of course, the feelings. Starting from this premise, I refer to photography, an art less for some, but always a universally recognized modern art.
Growing. Author: Álvaro Heras.
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For all these reasons, I advise you to carefully view the 10th Annual Exhibition of PlasenciaFoto in the Sala Hebraica of the Las Claras Cultural Center, in Plasencia from the 22nd of this month. Among his more than fifty works we will be able to glimpse artistic traces in some of the members of that oldest photographic association: a restless group that pursues mastery of the image. An intention that when it matures, becomes an art form in every way.
Posted on December 21, 2020
Text of Alfonso Trulls for your column Impressions of a foreigner. The opinions and images published in this column are the responsibility of their author.
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