What this means to me?
“The devil is in the details.” Focusing on the finer points in the process of art requires more time and more thought. During the process of making art, your actions reveal your thinking as a visual message. Breaking down the steps along the way to make deliberate marks, gestures, and/or color changes control your expression and avoid giving alternate signals in the work. Poor craftsmanship when technical excellence is required can be a distraction to the viewer.
Usually surface adornment is an issue of scale. Small hand made, fine art jewelry in silver and gold show a tighter control in polish and pattern. While large scale cast bronze sculptures by Henry Moore tolerate a looser, more gestural expressionistic surface texture. Both works are well planned, and thoughtfully controlled by the successful artist.
A work of art should appear fresh and spontaneous; not overworked. It takes decades of experience for the successful artist to go directly to the critical issues of a work in a very quickly executed manner; and call it finished. If it looks so easy to produce and you can say “anyone can do that”; then please try it! JA
“It often happens that in our understanding of a work of art, it is the indescribable that lifts it beyond the scope of the most convincing analysis. Thus the effect comes from what the image does not reveal, the unseen world implicit in the photograph. Such is the vision of an observer like Henri Cartier-Bresson, who was interested less in the pearls than the string holding them together. The truth is found not in a comprehensive assortment of facts, but in the spaces in between.” (Pierre Assouline Henri Cartier-Bresson A Biography Translation-Thames & Hudson 2005, original 1999.)
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