#3219 22x30" inks/acrylics on paper

Painting, a Third Way

A new third way of making paintings is coming into prominence with artists now. Rather than the first way of modernism’s enthusiasms for distortion such as Picassean fragmentations and surrealism, or the second, of glorification of slick manufacture and the false faces celebrated in post modernism, this approach descends from the spiritual hopes and ideals of Kandinskean abstraction.

The "Third Way" is connected to the ideals of a value structure which puts life's animating spirit in the center of new paradigm ways of conception and function. At its strongest art has always had connections to the spiritual, and so, we move into the possibility of our first "spiritual renaissance," previously spoken of by Chopra and Thurman, which includes new ways of relating to art.