Unlike puzzles or word games, art is not about the search for an answer. While a work may have a particular meaning for the artist who created it, that meaning is not imposed on anyone else. When we spend time with a work of art, we supply our own meaning or simply choose to surrender the search.
Good art will, after all, find a way to speak on its own terms. As Bridget Riley describes her …
Good art will, after all, find a way to speak on its own terms. As Bridget Riley describes her intentions, “I want the disturbance or ‘event’ to arise naturally, in visual terms, out of the inherent energies and characteristics of the elements which I use.” And as recent research has demonstrated, …
