An exercise on polarity

Mahael859

Mahael859

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Hello everyone,
I'm posting this work I'm carring on from the time I first meet the Cass.
It actually begun at the same time of the discovery of the same and the material here helped me a lot into expanding it.
This work is a sort of meditation on the theme of polarity for me.
I called it "Correction Exercise" since it started with the double side pencil (Blu&Red) that teacher used to correct homeworks.
It is also a "Correction" since it would like to point to the balance and giving the same importance to both the poles.
I particularly like it because, for me, it don't belong to me personally but it's just a compilation of different signs
(I'm not meaning this is objective art at all :))
I would like to hear some impression from you and maybe even some Corrections ;D
Hope you'll enjoy
 

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Hi Intothefield,

Your drawings just took me on a great adventure!

They work brilliantly as a long series, I'm particularily fond of nr 21, it seems to have some deeper aspect of polarity to me, or maybe it puts the polarity in a broader context than just a black vs white relationship. I found that very interesting in it's visual simplicity.

There are also some great sets of symbols that play on the verge between signs and abstraction, where you point out that strong and obvious relationship between them. I don't know much about Kaballah, but as far as my intuitive understanding of it goes, there would be present some elements or mechanisms related to it, not necessarily in - but between these drawings.
nice the choice of colors especially on this kind of paper also. :)

Really happy to see that particular kind of work here. We might be somewhat like minded about the visual, the thinking up and making of it, and the drive for drawing :) . The C's are also an influence for me , I'd even say that the worldview and concepts presented here by them and the rest of the of the material in this 'house', like Gurdjieff's work, also became a center point of my work with images, particularly drawing and printmaking which take most of my time. And there the theory of objective vs. subjective art, their nature and presence of both to some extent in every work or piece of -art- (in any given understanding) take up a lot of quite problematic thinking space :) And I think, or feel? (or both, and maybe that is a clue?) that many of your drawings here, or the whole of them as they are, touch upon the term of the objective art in a nearly tactile way. That also made me think of some Kaballistic connection, as if there was something simplified to bare equasions. I'm not sure if I can express what I mean understandably :/ but there is something more than just an idea of polarity in these drawings and I really enjoy looking at them.

I've come across some interesting essay about a Gurdjievian view of art some time ago, I'll have to try find it some time and link it in this section. It doesn't bring in much more than what was written in 'In Search Of the Miraculous', but it's any more takes on it are good since there is SO little and so vague about this idea of 'real' art!
Would you maybe know of some resources ? :cool:

great work!
 
Hi Ametist,
Apologizes for the late reply. Thanks for your exams on the pics, It's always intresting to ear what others think or feel about visual works. And I really appreciate that you've gone into such a long analysis of them. lot of food for my thought... :)
I'd be intrested into see more of your drawings given that the artworks you posted for the booklet where really engaging.Do you have a website where more can be seen?

ametist said:
I've come across some interesting essay about a Gurdjievian view of art some time ago, I'll have to try find it some time and link it in this section. It doesn't bring in much more than what was written in 'In Search Of the Miraculous', but it's any more takes on it are good since there is SO little and so vague about this idea of 'real' art!
Would you maybe know of some resources ? :cool:
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I've also come across a book a years ago where various artists, intellectual etc where discussing about the implication of their work connected to the Work. I can't remember the title of it but I'll check out and let you know if you are intrested.
More on the theme of objective art can be found "in Beelzebub's tales to his grandson" where an entire chapter is dedicated to arts in every forms.
The most sad and funny part is when Beelzebub explanes to the grandson how to interact with artists if he wants to be friend with them :lol:
If you find any other sources on this topic I'll be defenetly intrested in reading them.



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Hi ametist and Intothefield,

Maybe this is the essay? Gurdjieff’s Theory of Art by Anna Challenger, to be found here: _http://www.gurdjieff.org/challenger2.htm

Info about Anna Challenger here: _http://www.act.edu/act_artstech/hssviewfaculty.jsp;jsessionid=9AF32E6230A8BF150A902987BF09948C?FTCode=20060109101535754

Other essay by her: The "Tales" Themselves over here: _http://www.gurdjieff.org/challenger1.htm

She also wrote a book which is a rewrite of her PhD dissertation. Title: Philosophy and Art in Gurdjieff's "Beelzebub": A Modern Sufi Odyssey

To be found here: _http://www.amazon.com/Philosophy-Art-Gurdjieffs-Beelzebub-Odyssey/dp/904201489X

Just one review:

A Clear Perspective
September 20, 2005
By Reijo Oksanen

Anna Challenger summarizes her findings in the Sufi influences and origins of Gurdjieff; in my view that is not her real achievement with this book. (I may be biassed as I do not follow fully the arguments for the Sufi influences when they are mainly based on what J.G. Bennett and Idries Shah have written.) The presentation of Dante's Divine Comedy and its origins in Sufism are convincing and the comparisons to Beelzebub's Tales are also sound.

What she does achieve, in my view as the biggest thing, is a very clear panorama of Beelzebub's Tales. In this sense the book is a good introduction the them.

Her presentation gives an overview of The Tales as a literary work with references ranging from Gilgamesh to Thomas Mann. These are well worth reading and perhaps the best available anywhere to-day.

The following quotation is one of the many keen observations:

"The greatest value of a tale lies in the struggle for understanding that it demands, and in the inner friction that struggle creates..."
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Hope this helps a bit.
 
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