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Historical designations formerly qualifying approaches to art are used punitively as if the label now constitutes proof of error. So the term "romantic" gets smeared onto figurative painting as "retrograde" by a righteous garde enamored by the glamor in "enlightened" progress.
We need look far back to quell the monotonous clamor of spiteful objection to deeply felt expression. Here, in opposition to consensus by plurality, resolution rests on the individual. For even twenty or thirty millennium ago there were only a few. Do you think Lascaux was painted by committee.
Of course cave painters is a misnomer. They drew by brush: observation distilled to clarity - recollection inseparable from its imagining - vision transparent in intention. If this is the primitive mind, we should all aspire to such conceptual rigor where wonder arrives in the revelation of its contours.
Can any age claim greater accord in following the heart in matter? Seeing the spirit in all creation becomes the journey taken by the artist.
- Richard Rappaport, The Return to Compassion, 'Preface', "Portraits & Passages", www.richard-rappaport.net.
This photograph by River Gibeaut of the artist standing by Lightning on Sinai, 2010, was taken at the International Childrens' Art Gallery in Pittsburgh where it was exhibited with Six Characters in Search, Joseph in the Pit, Jacob in Mourning, and Storm Swept in September 2011.
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