Paradox on the Graphic Artist
Art is not free. It is freedom within constraints at every level, conscious and unconcious. But then, aesthetics is an art, the art of producing or of feeling pure disinterested pleasure.
-constraints
-interpretations
A message gives information in a strict sense. That is, an answer or a set of answers that are specific and useful for a specific question.
Graphic art informs about the thing it promotes, it answers questions.
Sensation is the contrary of sensational. The latter is calculable from what we think we know about most ordinary emotiveness.
The more graphic artists make a void in themselves, in order to let themselves be inhabited by the thing, the more the object is faithful to the thing it promotes. This is a fidelity that is not mimetic but inventive.
The paradox is constant but it is obscure.
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