Flat To "see" Magical

Avigdor Arikha is recognized to be a very distinctive artist in the late twentieth century. In the 1960s when he suddenly stopped abstract painting and turned to draw from life, he said that he finaly discovered that the nature of art was not memory or reconstruction but observation. Then what are we seeing? How should we see? The thesis is aimed to investigate this subject, involving the art and the art views of Avigdor Arikha.In the first, I will make a list of several main characters of the behavior of "seeing", those are the character of subjectivity, provisionality, changeability and so on. Furthermore, conscious activities just like memory, imagination and illusion that visual experience presents and creates under consciousness in the brain are also involved in the general concept of seeing. Although they don't strictly belong to the seeing that is made between things and retina, they are playing an very important role. Now that seeing absolutely objective is impossible, we must clearly understand that the so-called statement that seeing should face to things is not to make our eyes to be mirriors, but it is necessary to exclude the concept and the principle we have hold already, returning to the most intuitionistic seeing like a child. This is crucial for an artist. Because one of the most important causes of painting identifying from other fields and staying and living still in the years of fast developing digital image technology is the special way of seeing that has been infiltrated the cultural background and the personality of the artist. To be an artist, he must reject all traditional ideas he has owned, being earnest to observe the whole world and being honesty to what he is seeing. Only in this way can he find out new miracle from ordinary things every day. It is not only a talent but a kind of blessedness that one has the ablility to describe the world in his eyes.