science is not art, but science can be applied “to art” to understand the side of art “in shadow”, a sort of behind the scenes view that it is necessary to see in order to proceed with greater knowledge in the conservation of art- works. these first diagnostic analyses of Baj's early nuclear works provide useful information for better understanding the artist's technique, while at the same time leaving ample margin of doubt about several aspects of his creative process, a mystery that we like to think remains unfathomable about the meaning of art, despite its total visible manifestation: aesthetic phenom- enology as a vehicle for that spiritual dimension that Baj wished for man, in reaction to a growing rationalism and technophilia prevalent on the thresh- old of the third millennium.
“Art is not Science”: A Study of Materials and Techniques in Five of Enrico Baj’s Nuclear Paintings
L. Bochicchio
2020-01-01
Abstract
science is not art, but science can be applied “to art” to understand the side of art “in shadow”, a sort of behind the scenes view that it is necessary to see in order to proceed with greater knowledge in the conservation of art- works. these first diagnostic analyses of Baj's early nuclear works provide useful information for better understanding the artist's technique, while at the same time leaving ample margin of doubt about several aspects of his creative process, a mystery that we like to think remains unfathomable about the meaning of art, despite its total visible manifestation: aesthetic phenom- enology as a vehicle for that spiritual dimension that Baj wished for man, in reaction to a growing rationalism and technophilia prevalent on the thresh- old of the third millennium.
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