Real Evolution
Art Theory (After Oscar Wilde)

When an artist creates, he opens a door and goes into the World of The Real.

The Real is the soul of the physical world.  One can call it “spiritual world", yet the term "Real" gives a better understanding that the spiritual is the source of all material.  Real and Physical worlds flow one into the other and do not exist one without the other.  They are the same as human body and soul.

Real is what many call "beauty", William Blake called "imagination" and what in the East is called "Tao".

In Real we are all One and we are one with God.

Art always comes out of love.  Even if there is dirt, outrage and hatred on the surface, real work of art has no subconscious aggression.  The source of true art is Love.

Art reveals the Real, but it conceals the artist.  A spiritual father may not be idolized and loved before God.

Through the doorway that art is Spectator sees the image of the Real.  But speculator can not touch the Real through the artwork.  In order to reach the Real one has to create his own doorway.

Art is not about reflecting the physical life.  Art does reflect Real in life - the soul of the Universe.  Spectator's soul is part of the universal soul, and so it is also mirrored in art.
Viewing art is a form of meditation, it is looking inside oneself.

The artist does not need to prove anything he believes in.  Things that are true do not need to be proven, they must to be experienced.

The artist can have ethical sympathies.  But the artist can not accommodate Art and Real to these sympathies.  That is not art.

The story told in an artwork can be moral.  Yet that is not the Morality of art.  Morality of art is the Real.

The artist is not responsible for the spectator's interpretation of the artwork.  Artist does not control the Real.  Neither does the spectator.

The artist can express everything.  As long as it is Real.

Not everything that attracts diversity of opinion about it is new, complex and vital.  Nor is it always art.

The work of art is a window to the Real.  New windows reveal new blocks in people that are in the way of seeing the Real.  The critic who sees the Real has to find a way around these newly discovered blocks and to translate art in other manner.  This translation is not a new path to the Real - it is only an outline of the newly found blocks that exist in people.
It is naïve to think that the blocks can simply be moved out of the way.  In life blocks must be resolved.  Art dissolves these blocks.

Critics who refuse to see the Real are dishonest to their own souls/ selves.  This is a fault, as they try to accommodate the Real to their ideas or ideals.

All art is at once surface and symbol.  Not all that has surface and symbol is art.

Great art is not ambiguous; it is simple, clear and direct.  Painfully so.

If life has sense beyond biological survival, then art has use.  The use of Art is in searching and revealing the sense of life.  It is in revealing the Real.

[Michael Murphenko, Oksana Murphenko, Brussels, 2000]

Art Theory (After Oscar Wilde)