THE ARTIST'S STATEMENT

Throughout the renaissance artists, scientists, philosophers and inventors sat at the Medici table. An artist was extremely well informed about current ideas -- indeed the artist and the scientist were often the same person.
The romantic approach to painting was fueled by the idea that art was a vehicle for personal emotion. In contrast to this, the Impressionists attempted to render an "impression" of what the eyes sees at a particular moment, rather than what the mind knows to be there. As a result, Impressionism was often accused of lacking intellectual content. Post-Impressionistic reaction led to reintroduction of emotional and symbolic content. Art in the twentieth century went through a radical change fueled by the rejection of the naturalistic tradition, while at the same time, classical physics was being overturned by Quantum Theory and General Relativity.
In all the chaos that has gripped science and art in the twentieth century, the Space Age, at the threshold of the stellar frontier, finally called out for a grand unification of all art styles as well as science. To "understand" our place in and relationship to the universe be it cosmic or atomic, an "all art menu" must be employed. "Reality" can be experienced in many ways, but the artist must have genuine ideas to express.
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