Artist Talk: The Art of Implication

Artist Talk: The Art of Implication

When viewing a painting, the general public and many artists are satisfied when an artwork is identifiably understandable and is acceptable to their personal taste. What is often overlooked is the structure of visual energy that is unavoidably there. Becoming aware of implication allows the viewers (including the artist) to fill in the blanks and become an active participant. Over a century ago, Kandinsky was the first to write about visual forces as vehicles that take one from the materialistic into the spiritual. Two-dimensional art does not move physically in time like music, theater, films, etc., but implied energy in painting via one’s unconscious perceptions, can move actively in time prompting connections to the viewer’s past and possible future. David will share how, over his fifty year career at the University of Minnesota, he taught toward implied energy.

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