Artistic Endeavours
24/12/2020
Background Image: Paola Martella (2019) L'occhio Della Coscienza - Dedicato Ai Miei Genitori.
Painted with tailor's spools in honor of my mother a qualified Master Tailor.
'Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as a part of the human race, he creates.' (Morris, 2012, p. 3).
'All things, as external phenomena, are beside each other in space," then the rule is valid universally, and without any limitation. Our expositions, consequently, teach the reality (i.e., the objective validity) of space in regard of all which can be presented to us externally as object, and at the same time also the ideality of space in regard to...
'What I am saying in effect is that the creativity of my subjects seemed to be an epiphenomenon of their greater wholeness and integration, which is what self-acceptance implies.' (Maslow, 2013).
Martella, P. (2020-2021) Tracciati Series
'When artistic objects are separated from both conditions of origin and operation in experience, a wall is built around them that renders almost opaque their general significance, with which esthetic theory deals. Art is remitted to a separate realm, where it is cut off from that association with the material and aims of every other form of human...