Endlesness. watercolor on paper 35X50 cm art as a proccess . The art of the West views the artwork as a product. It is a painting hung on a wall or in a church for contemplation. It has a purpose, serves a message, and is expected to be a three-dimensional illusion . This is how we were all taught about art. You are judged by the final result, the finished painting commissioned and paid for by the church or a wealthy family that funded it. The client is not interested in the process; they paid for the result. But in painting, there is a process, and there are artists and cultures that emphasize the act of painting as a spiritual activity no less important than the outcome. In Chinese and Japanese cultures , the spiritual act inherent in painting was no less significant than the final goal—the painting itself. In the West, this idea emerged at the beginning of the 20th century. Artists abandoned realistic, illusionistic oil paintings and created more abstract, two-dimensional work...
