Within painting, a complex atheistic language will often be developed by an artist as the years go by. It is sometimes is not enough to draw a pleasing picture and color it in with paint. On a purely visual and intellectual level we see a nice painting but (at least for me) the main concerns of form, color and line will hopefully be further enhanced by a series of emotive mark making expressions. I am often found at a exhibition with my reading glasses on looking very closely at the surface of paintings. I love to see the history of emotive interactions, the dance, the struggle, the sheer flow or stillness of marks which often appear all in just one work. I was almost brought to tears after my first really good look at l some of Picasso's work. A combination of the visually stunning yes.... but to feel to flow from the marks, the intensity ease and confidence within each brush stroke took my breath away.
To see beyond the superficial in a artist work, to experience and feel the artist through the history of their marks, the way they created savage and melancholy textures, their movement and energy, their passion, is to see the imprint of the artists heart.
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