Art and the World by Alberto Thirion

 

Does art serve to communicate beyond words?

Work in oil pastel on canvas by Alberto Thirion

Well, very good! We are going to try to see and understand what Art is for, and I repeat it.

First of all I will say that I am not an art critic, but an artist, so I can really talk about art with full knowledge.

Let's say with a totally practical and not theoretical knowledge of the matter at hand.

I say this, without the intention of offending anyone, much less taking revenge, for so many hours wasted reading all kinds of theories about art, in my adolescence and youth.

I think it goes without saying that here I am going to talk about art properly so-called, because today everything is "art" and everyone is "artist", I suppose that this confusion is due to the poor definitions of art in dictionaries, for the so-called class uncultivated media, which as we all know is the most abundant.

Well I am going to say it with a lapidary phrase, art is, a self-portrait and it serves to know oneself.

I chose to say it that way, because I am also lapidary, I don't say it that way out of pretended elegance.

..."Art is the highest verb of the spirit"... Hegel

Artists are hardly ever elegant because they are generally busy with more interesting things, this being said apart from the topic at hand. As you all know, artists are never elegant or almost never, now I don't remember, many that it has been.

I say this simply because I asked myself as I am writing this, and because it is not a bad thing to quote it.

I have fully verified what I say and affirm, art is a self-portrait and serves to know oneself.

That's all, whoever can understand, let him understand.

Now it only remains to add that the work that illustrates this article is mine, it is an American Christ, similar in essence to the Brown Virgin, the Queen of America, that is, it is a mestizo Christ, a mixture of Indigenous and European blood.

Although some Russians and Sevillians from Spain have told me that this is Christianity in their land. If this is the case, which I in no way doubt, we are before a Christ of the Earth.

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Albert Thirion