art statement
Legrady bio
Legrady cv
Legrady's work
on the CCCA
Art Database
Kingston Proze
AGO Book
launch
National Gallery
of Canada
collection
31works
 A STUDY IN VISUAL LANGUAGE BUTTERFLIES; A NON-VERBAL Art Ecology. In visual art, just as in music, we become aware of conversations within conversations; we experience patterns, sequences, bridges, opposition and harmonies, we feel melodic, periodic, or melancholic as the work moves us. Visual language describes things whose subtlety is lost when explained in words. Since the intellect is but one mode of thinking, visual language expands the bandwidth to include that which cannot be explained in sentences. Visual language is like music in that it can embody complexities and intensities of feelings that the written words can rarely express, unless one has the language of Shakespeare. As an algorithm or heuristic, contemporary theory questions visual attraction because of its dual nature. Obviously instincts can move us to production or destruction. Here we see the formative aspects of visual grammar. An infinite variety of expression, and the infinite variations in shades of their admixture, guarantee that the long awaited death of painting is an unrealistic expectation. Painting is a visual language operating on a different bandwidth than writing. Both have been in use since calligraphy split off from pictography. Painting was often subjugated to religious or political illustration because of painting's ability, it's power of speech. But what does painting really say (in the abstract?) The medium is the message. Painting beingl language, this work is speech. Buckminster Fuller said "I never try to make something beautiful, but at the end, if it’s not beautiful, something is wrong". |
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