Picture and Reality 2

-Blog entry 9

Thoughts or ideas are things that are real or they could not even be ideas. Both
ideas and things must attend to the other to form the model which is of the world, the whole of reality. A model can be attended to as a figure. It is by our sense perception and the data that present patterns by which objects [things] become forms. Objects and forms exist in both the real and ideal and attend to each other. When thoughts or ideas as figure attend to objects as reality we form subject.

Pictures and Reality 1

-Blog entry 8

A picture bears witness to the world and as such it creates true insights into nature, society and mind. It contains spiritual energies that increase our capacities. A picture is a model of reality; the facts of the picture extend from the reality of the world to the model of the world. It is by our sense perceptions that we apprehend the data to form the facts for thoughts [ideas] connected to reality.

Tim Cosens at Medway Valley - Video

Part 1

Part 2

On Models and Pictures

-Blog entry 7

The facts forming the elements in picture are in equilibrium in a determinate structure thereby a picture is a model of reality. As a model of reality a pictorial relationships exists between things [objects] and the pictures elements. Pictorial form exists in that things are related in the way as are the elements of the picture. The pictorial relationship is its immediacy. A picture must have pictorial form and a pictorial relationship to have logical form to create meaning.

Facts are related in form to other possible facts; facts can present other facts in a different quality.

Bridging the Line Between Earth and Sky

Tim is featured in London's Artscape Magazine, the monthly journal for the visual, performing and literary arts! Above is this month's cover. They used one of Tim's paintings as the backdrop which we're very excited about. Not only that but, Susan Scott, writer from Artscape Magazine, put in a nice article about Tim, this blog, his videos online, the Earth and Sky exhibiton and his recent work!


More from the article:

"If you want to get a good idea of what it’s like to paint landscapes directly from nature, take a gander at Tim Cosens’ blog at www.timcosens.blogspot.com. There you will find a video of the artist sketching a wintry scene, as he perches precariously on stool while wind whips his paper and snow pelts him. It makes you shiver to look at it. For the artist, however, the discomfort of painting outside is the price paid for the vitality he achieves in his work, and the weather – good or ill – is an integral part of the art-making process."

View the rest of the article in the online version of Artscape Magazine here.

On Contingency

-Blog entry 6

Facts are embedded in logical space thereby forming contingency. Contingency is a matter of the combination and separation of objects. The object is set in equilibrium between a structure of necessary connections. Things [objects] must be possible constituents in states of affairs, fit to enter states of affairs. This possibility is a contingency itself.

Tim's Earth and Sky Exhibition

I've already made a post about this but I thought I would provide some additional information here to help you readers find your way to the exhibition.

OPENING RECEPTION: Friday, November 7 at 7:30 p.m.
EXHIBITION & SALE: November 3 -29, 2008

The online version of the exhibit can be found here: http://www.theartexchange.ca/exhibitions.php?exhibitionId=69

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION: Form is a perception of a world view, in that, form is an operation of forces that carry an experience of an event, object or situation to its own integral fulfillment. The moments of these forces combine to articulate the structure of poetic or aesthetic imaging in that the inner and outer experiences interact as tensions that resolve to create intuition imbued with feeling.

This is the accuracy of vision transformed and reinforced with the emotive knowledge of lived experience.

Come see the Earth and Sky exhibit this month at:

247 Wortley Rd. at Tecumseh, London ON, N6C 3P9

519-434-0000

Monday - Friday 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. & Saturday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

On Things

-Blog entry 5

Objects in the world are elements in the picture by corresponding to the facts to them. Things [objects], by virtue of their form determine the structure of the logical space.

Logical space, physical space presents a collection of locations, positions or places; a manifold of systematically related places.

"Earth and Sky" - The Art Exchange Exhibition, London Ontario

Come see Timothy Cosens "Earth and Sky" exhibition at the The Art Exchange Gallery in London Ontario! The exhibit will showcase Tim's finest works available for viewing or purchasing, open from November 3rd through the 29th. You are all invited to the opening reception this coming Friday the 7th at 7:30PM to meet Tim. We will be sure to post updates from the exhibition here so check back regularly!

To find more of Tim's works featuring the Dominion Building, a Fanshawe winter, Harris Park and others, check the Art Rental and Sales Gallery at the Museum London!

Tim on the Thames River

This clipping was borrowed from the Thames Topics booklet, published by Celebrate the Thames - Urban League of London, to showcase artists who have been inspired by the mighty river. It was part of an initiative to have the Thames River declared a Canadian heritage river, which did in fact happen.