Dear reader,
If you remember my posts Hi! I’m back! and I’m not crazy, after all…, you would remember the main claim I’m making so far in this blog – that art is the embodiment of an existing invisible world. Now, this invisible world in not just something self-existing and independent; no, it is part of the real world we live in, it is simply invisible, as in – it cannot be touched with a hand or measured with a stick. Yet it has real dimensions and properties, just like everything we know in the physical world.
Support for my claim I found in an unlikely figure – Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler! I had never heard of him until I came across a reference about him in a book. I researched some and found his book “Juan Gris – His Life and Work”. It is a splendid book! Not only does it talk about Gris’ life and work, but it has a tremendous section on art, its essence and purpose, by this so important figure of art Kahnweiler – the dealer of Picasso and all the Cubists, the man who accepted Cubism as art and championed it.
So this week I will talk about what I learned from D.H. Kahnweiler! Honestly, I think his book “Juan Gris” should be required reading for everyone studying art, any art.
Art and the Invisible 