Artwork

Artext No. 19 (ARTISTIC TRUTH IS...)

Artist/Creator: Kenneth Coutts-Smith (Artist)
Date: 1977
ID #: BG1189

Physical Description

Medium: ink
Support: paper
Dimensions: 96.6 cm 66.5 cm (Object)
Object Description: Printed text reads: "Artistic truth is not determined by a full correspondence between art and ideology. But neither is determined - and this differentiates it from scientific knowledge - by a complete congruence with an objective reality existing apart from an independently of man. In a painting or a poem about a tree for example, what we have is not a tree in itself or a tree as seen by a botanist, but rather a humanized tree - a tree that attests to human presence." "Adolfo Sanchez Vaszquez"

History

Collection: Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery Permanent Collection
Credit Line: Gift of Helen K. Wright, 1993
Related Exhibitions: –

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