Ecological Art REVIEW 2016 presents:

PROCESSED ART: Object into Subject


"I have always believed, and still believe, that artists who live and work with spiritual values cannot and should not remain indifferent to a conflict in which the highest values of humanity and civilization are at stake." Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973)

"The consequence of the image will be the image of the consequence." Heinrich Hertz

"Then there is the idea of an object floating-not supported-the use of a very long thread, or a long arm in cantilever as a means of support seems to best approximate this freedom from the earth. Thus what I produce is not precisely what I have in mind-but a sort of sketch, a man-made approximation." Alexander Calder, "What Abstract Art Means to Me", 1951

"The standard paradox of the 20th century: Our tools are better than we are, and grow better faster than we do." Aldo Leopold, Ecologist

"An artist who has traveled on a steam train, driven an automobile, or flown in an airplane does not feel the same way about form and space as one who has not. An artist who has lived in a democratic society has a different view of what a human being really is than one who has not. These new experiences, emotions, and ideas are reflected in modern art, but not as a copy of them." Stuart Davis, 1940

"When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it is your world for the moment." Georgia O'Keeffe (1887 - 1986)

"Movement, change, light, growth and decay are the lifeblood of nature, the energies that I try to tap through my work. I need the shock of touch, the resistance of place, materials and weather, the earth as my source. I want to get under the surface. When I work with a leaf, rock, stick, it is not just that material in itself, it is an opening into the processes of life within and around it. When I leave it, these processes continue." Andy Goldsworthy/LECTURE/June 11, 2011

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