Realm of bliss.ALL ABSTRACT ART IS DIFFERENT, and it is pointless to generalize. But there is a certain strain that consistently reappears, where the artist seems to be painting from pure bliss. Hambleton's Ascent shows two parts of a richly colored circle, rayed with light, too vast for the canvas. Ruthlessly bisecting these segments is a rectangle, a whiteness flecked fleck n. 1. A tiny mark or spot: flecks of mica in the rock. 2. A small bit or flake: flecks of foam; a fleck of dandruff. tr.v. with covert and secret forms, half luminous, half obscure. The rectangle rises and then is abruptly curtailed as the canvas finishes. Yet somehow, the ascent continues "out there," in that real world to which joy gives us temporary entrance. SISTER WENDY BECKETT Sister Wendy Beckett (born February 25 1930) is a South African-born British art expert, consecrated virgin and contemplative hermit who became an unlikely celebrity during the 1990s, presenting a series of acclaimed art history documentaries for the BBC. of Norfolk, England, well-known for her BBC BBC in full British Broadcasting Corp. Publicly financed broadcasting system in Britain. A private company at its founding in 1922, it was replaced by a public corporation under royal charter in 1927. and PBS PBS in full Public Broadcasting Service Private, nonprofit U.S. corporation of public television stations. PBS provides its member stations, which are supported by public funds and private contributions rather than by commercials, with educational, cultural, television art series and her popular art books, Reprinted with permission from: Sister Wendy's Book of Meditations (DK Publishing, 1998; 877-342-5357). Painting: Ascent, 1987, by Mary Hambleton. |
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