本日はきのうのブログの整理整頓。
昨日、高校同期の友人の画業を紹介させていただいた。かれは高校以来、ずっと「抽象画」を描き続けてきているとのことだった。それはかれの信ずるところであり、まったく尊重するべき態度だと思われた。
しかし一方で、わたし一個の自分自身のことで考えるとわたしは世界を「見る」とき、やはりそこに表示されている「節理」とか、自然のことわり、のようなものへの深い愛着を持っている。というか、すべてはその大きな世界のなかで「生かされて自分がある」と受け止めているのだとあらためて強く感じられた。
むしろ抽象画を描き続けている友人との対話の中から、自分自身と対話していたと思える。
写真は毎年、散策路の途中でそのいのちの叫び声を聞かせてもらっている「オオウバユリ」のことしの表情。ここには独特の「美感」があり、さまざまな環境条件、種としての「さだめ」に即して必死に生きようとする植物・イキモノとしての本然のままの一心不乱さがある。いのちを輝かせて美を生きているといつも感じる。
自然はそのあるがままの中で、その「存在としてのありよう」を表現していると思えるのだ。
抽象画もまた、世界を色と独自の形象の世界と捉え、個人というフィルターを濾過させてそのままに表出させた営為と思える。大きくは存在の美感に従って、その内奥のリズムを表出させている営為。
この宇宙の森羅万象にある「存在の美」というものと、根源は同じだと思っている。
あとは、その表現の形の違いではないだろうか。友人とまったく噛み合わない話をしながら、一方でなにか深く共感できる感覚が同時並行していたように思っていた。
なにか意味不明な感覚表出のようで申し訳ありませんが、なんとなく「気付かされた」のでメモとして書きました。
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Human “sense of beauty” is guided by nature.
After a “dialogue” with a friend of mine who has been painting abstract paintings, I realized that I like the beauty of all things in the forest, just the way they are. I am a fan of the beauty of all things in the forest and of things as they are.
Today, I'm reorganizing yesterday's blog.
Yesterday, I introduced a friend of mine from high school who has been painting “abstract paintings” ever since high school. He told me that he has been painting “abstract paintings” ever since high school. This is what he believes in, and I thought it was an attitude that I should totally respect.
On the other hand, when I think about myself as an individual, when I “see” the world, I still have a deep attachment to the ‘reasonableness’ or the “natural order” of things displayed in the world. In other words, I strongly felt once again that I accept everything as if “I am alive and I exist” in this big world.
In fact, I think I was talking to myself through the dialogue with my friend who continues to paint abstract paintings.
The photo shows the expression on the face of the “day lilies,” whose screams of life are heard every year along the walking path. There is a unique sense of beauty here, and I always feel that we are living in the beauty of plants and animals that are desperately trying to live in accordance with various environmental conditions and their “destiny” as a species, and that they are single-mindedly shining their life as it is their true nature.
I believe that nature is expressing its “way of being” in its own way.
Abstract painting also seems to me to be an art form that sees the world as a continuous world of colors and unique forms, and expresses them as they are, filtered through the filter of the individual. It seems to me that the artist is expressing the inner rhythms of the world according to the aesthetic sense of existence.
I believe that the “beauty of existence” that continues to exist throughout the universe has the same root.
What remains to be seen is the difference in the form of expression. While I was having a completely irreconcilable conversation with my friend, I was simultaneously feeling a sense of deep empathy.
I am sorry if this seems to be an expression of some unintelligible feeling, but I wrote it as a memo because I was somehow “made aware” of it.
I am sorry to say that I wrote this as a memo, but I was somehow “made aware” of it.
