Man has not ceased to create since his first thought, and he will never cease to think, this being his driving force of life. This first thought, the origin of Creation, will continue in perfect osmosis with the rhythm of time, the rhythm of our breath, inspiring the enthused Being and instilling a creative “firefly” that awakens the artist and allows him to generate matter. According to Spinoza, “a true idea must agree with the nature of the object that it represents”.
This true idea or creative essence sustains the fulfilment and shaping of matter of a work of art and/or an artistic expression. Myriads of individuals have proven themselves to be artists using all kinds of objects, shapes, matter, techniques, inventions and other things, from their past, their present and even their future. During each period, especially up to the 20th century, artists have asserted their integration into a movement related to a form of expression or to an artistic theory.
These movements have emerged and determined an imaginary, a thought and a collective artistic thought. They have structured the art history of humanity and invoked an immediate reference of the form, figurative or abstract, that each movement has elaborated. This connotation and reference to movements has been diluted at the end of the 20th and beginning of the 21st century.
The focus of development and economic competition of each country, has soaked up all the lucrative sources from human activities, including those of the art world. The global economy is characterized by country or by region, the artistic sphere has finished up by incorporating this traceability or referencing and since then, artistic expression is not specifically determined by movements, but by geographical regions.
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH
SIZE : 30 x 23 cm / 9″ x 12″
PAGES: 160
"The PERSONAL MYTHOLOGY CREATED BY ARTISTS ABOUT THEMSELVES AND THEIR WORK IS LIKE THE MYSTERIES OF THE UNIVERSE IN A WAY THAT IT REQUIRES A JOURNEY INTO THE UNKNOWN."
Corinne Timsit