Such explanation is enough for someone who simply wants to know where the vibrant hues of fall come from when the temperature begins to plummet.
Yet fall leaves are much more than biological explanations of a step-by-step process. Rather, they involve aspects that are best left not to our
faculties for logic and reasoning but to our capacities of sensing and intuiting. For these aspects, science finds itself mute.
These aspects include beauty, emotion, and transcendence, and for these, art is a much better spokesperson. Art is the various configurations of
elements leaning towards a process or product that may have for its goal aesthetic pleasure, social change, political reform, among others. It is an
instrument by which emotions are directly accessed, or conversely, made palpable in the real world. In its various forms-poetry, music, dance,
theater, typography, cinema, photography, etc.-and through its multitudes of practitioners who bring their many, sometimes clashing, but always
useful points of view to this democratic universe, art truly becomes the voice of the human soul.
In the case of this painting, art articulates not only the steps of the scientific process that makes leaves change color, but also the
feeling of astonishment and excitement at how nature achieves this magnificent feat. By means of the textures, lines, and colors, it is
able to embody all the sensory details that a person experiences during fall-the crisp wind, the smell of cinnamon and cloves and dried
leaves and apples, the sound of long walks on carpets of leaves, the fiery-hued foliage-including memories such as going back to school,
or hours of raking, or packing away summer clothes and buying new sweaters. Indeed, it is surprising how a seemingly small fragment of
autumn-a picture of a few leaves-is able to do this, but such is precisely one of the great things that art is capable of doing.
Art condenses and expands experience at the same time, so that "a few leaves" can never be "just a few leaves." On one level, the
painting is a likeness of something in the natural world, something commonplace yet extraordinary, small yet possesses grand qualities.
On another, it is associated with our conscious memories. On even further levels, it may transform into symbols of nature's astounding
ability to renew itself again and again, or even our personal capacity and need for constant change.
Exceptional Gift for Home Warming, Weddings, Anniversaries or any occasion and a beautiful piece of
original Veny Art for your Collection
From the studio of Boston own artist Veny (Boston, Massachusetts)
Original Artwork, signed by the artist
Acrylic quality canvas
Stapled onto the back allowing you to use corner key to tighten and allowing for re-stretching if needed
Sides are painted and allow for display with or without frame
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