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The Painter and Dimensions in Painting

The Painter and Dimensions in Painting

In order to develop this thought and reflect upon it I would need a whole vast treatise. I, here and now, want to present “my treatise”, “my reflections”; and I am going to appropriate the word dimension so that it can help me to explain… to myself what I consider the different dimensions in painting, in which the painter can neither disregard the canvas, paintbrushes, colours, nor the spirituality necessary to achieve the work of art. This requests starting from the philosophical concept of painting and making out of what could the main figure, the painter, the instrument the painting uses to paint itself be…, so it has a life of its own, as we have so many times heard but has so many times remained as empty words, not even believed by the person saying them… but you know “it sounds good”, “very poetic”…, but… why can’t the artist totally succumb and let be used as the tool making the material work of creation?... and it is here when we enter in the theological concept of painting.

Coming back to my dimensions in painting – which I will develop more in depth in the future -, I would state that the first dimension is the existence of the painter and his environment. The artist achieves the second dimension when painting. The painter reaches the third dimension through sculpture. The fourth dimension is the spirituality of the painter-man. The fifth dimension, here is where lies the origin of it all! Here is where the answer to all the questions in painting lies! here is where lies the ultimate art!, here is where the philosophical concept of painting becomes theology!, here is where the painting is self-painted!

This is the dimension I would like to reach, though if I could only glance at it, devote myself with my brushes, my colours and my knowledge to be used by the only Creator, so that the canvas recreated the work of art.
As I said at the beginning of these reflections, and if I am able, I will continue developing “my treatise” on the dimensions in painting, especially on the fifth dimension, which I will further detail in my next written statement.


Jorge Rando, Hamburg, December 2010