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Pilgrimage to Nature
Throughout history art movements have in various ways expressed the relationship of human society with that
of the surrounding nature, or from a wider perspective, humankind and the universe-cosmos.
In France the Schools at Barbizon and the Fontainebleau were the preamble to French Impressionism.
Impressionism was all about capturing the moment as being the awareness of the transient state of the world and living.
Fundamentally, as an Impressionist painter, I find that using the modes of Post Impressionism, Symbolism, Surrealism and my own
creative mode ‘Alter Realism’ are means of venturing into philosophical and theological aesthetic considerations for compositional
narratives.
The changes to our sense and understanding of the world has been considerable through the advances of science, particularly quantum
physics and associated disciplines of chemistry and biology, with consequential implications to theology and philosophy and their
respective paradigms of understanding. This necessitates a new and all inclusive portrayal of the world and hence aesthetic language.
Charles Neal 2025
