Butterflies (and Beauty)

Someone at the Gallery said contemporary art doesn't care about beauty; beauty's out along with grabdna's lace doilies. And it hit me that made no sense. Beauty is an algorithm of visual language, and it save you a lot oftime and effort when making monumental works.Plus, if beauty's lacking, people mostly pay lip service and move on.

Art and Ecology, a story for the confinement period of covid-19.
As a COVID art project, because the world needs some positive stimulus,
I'm adding butterflies to my paintings. Visual language is a strange beast.
Add enough pigment to canvas and you have the painting above.

Paul Dirac said when he sees beauty in his equations
he knows he's on the right path to progress
while if beauty's lacking, the math is probably wrong.

It's sensible to ask if this science behind beauty also applies to visual art.

So this work looks at visual language, the non-verbal;
how an image changes when you add a butterfly

In aesthetic we become aware of deeper patterns, of instincts  that determine choice and personality. Ancient instincts and more recent ones from the last centuries or decades, a spectrum of personal and social culture.  It is likely there’s a strong connection between our collective consciousness and our individual lives, almost as if humanity was a computer in which local information spread from one node to the other, as creative activity is vital for the formation of consciousness.

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