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JOHN EELLS On His Painting
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So just what am I trying to accomplish in my artwork? What am I getting at? It is exactly this ~ I am attempting to provide the viewer with an opportunity to experience some feeling, some emotion. I may attempt to do this through the use of color and composition. Or it may be through the way I treat my subject matter.
Because each viewer brings his or her individual soul to the art experience, I cannot predict to what extent I will succeed. Perhaps some one painting or sculpture will succeed in touching the feelings of one person and not another. |
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| I make no demands on the viewer as to what to feel. The viewer participates in the creation of each work by involving his or her own sensations in the encounter. One may feel that she or he is in the presence of something beautiful, or something strange or something indescribable. There is no requirement that he or she feel what I felt as I was creating the painting or sculpture. The viewer is also free to feel nothing. How could it be otherwise? But perhaps feeling nothing is also feeling something.
Please feel free. John Eells |
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