The Essence Of The Work Of Art

Only if you know how to look at the unseen can you reveal the hidden secrets of reality.

For an artist, painting is not only a form of expression, but also a form of freedom dedicated to the vision thirsty for beauty and depth. I say this while admiring the fairy-tale landscape, full of light and warmth, which prompts me to dream, an act of pure imagination, the most important activity of the mind, as long as it brings into reality useful ideas, popularizing my creation.

The things around me do not mean much if they are not filtered through the ability of the eyes to focus on the retina the delightful image of a palette of varied, vivid and lasting colors that transform a blank canvas into a masterpiece full of life and expression. That white canvas of the sea, the sand and the island on which I am, becomes a real work of art within the painting that I cultivate with great talent and skill, in images drawn from the depths of the brush with the gift of creative work. Process so rare nowadays, continuous and complex process that requires passion and dedication.

And there is no painter in the world who does not pay a price for this vision capable of moving hearts and souls, located on the fragile boundary between observation and invention. This price being conditioned by every second of waiting for the dream moment that, piercing reality like a ray of light, makes every kind of memory blossom, as in a paradise of all freedoms.

Can you resize a perceived image in the absence of an artistic process, yet suggestively portray the spirit of a living subject of creative metamorphosis?

I look around. The eyes capture an endless palette of colors, each shade, each pattern, each meaning representing a window into the inner world of the artist who represents me, where feelings and thoughts come to life on a canvas full of evocative force through color and composition, giving birth to a universe vibrant and full of hidden meanings. Even in this case, the merit of painting exactly after nature, putting on the color palette the most enigmatic view of a state of fragility, with which I receive every small change that appears, belongs entirely to the practiced vision that knows how to capture the beauty of the world in -a color palette and turn every moment into a work of art.

I look, but cannot think of that which cannot be known. There is no artistic process here, just a form of feeding my ego through this honest confession.

Obvious. To give my confession a certain meaning, as if it would produce a chain reaction that can change the course of my entire life, now that the eyes succeed in the performance of integrating their gaze into the vast landscape of the outside world, and to idealize a masterful moment as a light step on the foot in a universe of imagination, this is what the act of developing visual perception teaches me springing from the absolute height of a cloudless sky to which I devote my entire attention.

And the present answers me with the voice of a John Fowles hero:

"I look at everything around me, while I think about tomorrow, about the future. And, yes, I can make quite realistic assumptions. Especially about God, because the supreme creator is very intelligent, he is everywhere, no I see it, but how do I know it, because I don't understand it, who it is, or what it's like. So I think God must be very intelligent be much more intelligent than I. He gives me no hints, no certainty, no reasons. In fact, if I were to pray to God, I would never show myself. Let him avoid my gaze. And if he did show himself, I would know that he is not God, but only a liar."

How do you evaluate the relevance of your creation if you are represented by an image that roots in your meditative mind the connection with the divine and with your own being?

When an artist gazes at the horizon line, meditatively and spiritually, he often sees himself with the eyes of an unknown but perfect God, who penetrates deep into the mystery of his inner being, revealing the meaning of a stop frame in time: "all that I live is influenced, perceived and fulfilled by an image that provokes the feeling of communion between the known and the unknown".

And art, in this sense, denotes a kind of impersonal construction, because you feel that you are the creator of what transcends reality and reveals beauty beyond words. But in fact, someone else guides your hands when you draw with the brush on the canvas, giving life to a new and unexplored world.

And if I use an image that meditatively merges my presence with the divine dimension, to reveal the essence of the work of art, Atinsphorn Upyserabbas Onyoirtus, the depth of reality obtained by striving for an authentic experience that reveals the will of the hidden Divinities, this happens because in painting I must reveal and bring to light the hidden divinity in every shade and form.

There are often layers of meanings and meanings well hidden beneath the visible surface. Moreover, if both God and the painter are involved in the process of revelation and expression, I ask myself the question: the things around me exist for me to grasp them with my gaze and find new meanings, or in fact my vision embodies the contemplative Self which explores the divine mystery in the colors and forms brought to life through art?

Even if it is not always obvious at first sight, a transcendent manifestation is present in every element pierced by the artistic sphere by a grace, by a voice, by a miracle that has no equal in all Creation. And even if I feel that my brush is guided by something higher, without my will being able to oppose an infinite force, I still manage to reach a real depth in my creation because I connect with my own emotions, experiences and authentic thoughts.

The essence of the work of art must be understood as the identity between the plane of the Ego and that of the mystery in the "substance of creation" from which springs life beyond death. Man lives eternally through the creation that God instilled in his time.

An artist can feel connected to a higher source of creativity only when creating works of art. In this perspective, the artist is not only a creator of art, but becomes a divine, God-like figure through his creation.

The essence of the work of art is related to the connection with the divinity, when the depth of your thoughts and experiences becomes a window to the mystery and sacredness of existence. Or when you become, by grace and virtue, like God whose creations, revealing themselves as transcendent works of art, find their unique place in the harmonious whole of the universe.

And the creative metamorphosis, which I mentioned earlier, refers to a kind of likeness of the artist to God, who confesses his experiences through creation. The artist himself becomes God if he has the potential to touch and express deep and universal truths through his ability to create and express himself. In fact, the artist, by expressing his unique feelings, emotions and vision, transcends his own humanity and attains a level of consciousness and expression that is almost divine.