Reclaiming Art in the Age of Artifice by J.F. Martel

Author:J.F. Martel [Martel, J. F.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-58394-859-0
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Published: 2015-02-09T16:00:00+00:00

The painter’s ability to follow the vision in spite of the dictates of form allowed him to transform a nude body into a dynamic hybrid of mind and matter, self and other, which attains its fullness in erotic love.

Sometimes rifts take the form of stylistic excesses, moments where the thread of a work flies off into some unforeseen place. These can include metaphors, digressions, twitches, or puns that break the fluid progression of things. Mona Lisa’s smile is such an ellipsis: its ambiguity breaks the image open, turning what would otherwise have been a brilliant portrait into an insoluble enigma. Other rifts are less noticeable even though they alter our experience just as strongly. In the opening pages of Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse, for instance, there is a rift that makes that book as otherworldly as any science fiction novel. It occurs when Mrs. Ramsey goes into town with the insecure Mr. Tansley. The two have been walking awhile, with Mr. Tansley rambling nervously about this and that, when suddenly:

the houses falling away on both sides, they came out on the quay, and the whole bay spread out before them and Mrs. Ramsay could not help exclaiming, “Oh, how beautiful!” For the great plateful of blue water was before her; the hoary Lighthouse, distant, austere, in the midst; and on the right, as far as the eye could see, fading and falling, in soft low pleats, the green sand dunes with the wild flowing grasses on them, which always seemed to be running away into some moon country, uninhabited of men.7

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