Ehud Grably's Atomic Analogy

“I compare art, to the discovery of the atom, and by that it is possible to explain in a comprehensive manner, my opinion on the way of art in the year 2000. (It must be noted that the concept of the year 2000 expresses a symbol of a new era of sophistication and progress in all areas, and not necessarily 2000 years as a literal concept). 

Well, the atom is known as the tiniest particle in nature and is the basis of everything, it is the beginning, the basis from which it is impossible to retreat, and so it happens in art. 

In artists like Cezanne, Matisse and of course, Picasso. If we look at paintings of artists from the centuries gone by, it is possible to notice the aspiration to arrive at the primary basis, form, basic shapes. These are the geometric shapes through which we assemble an entire world.

Let's return to the atom, when, once researchers settle most of the questions surrounding the atom, two paths were discovered on the horizon. One is the good path, the use of the atom for peace purposes, to provide energy, to operate nuclear plants etc. The other path, is the bad and wrong path, with which bombs are created. 

Back to art. Here too, two different and opposite paths are seen. Once art reaches the basis, the atom, to the primary line, the virginal, the one which the bad artists took, they have reached a path with no way out. The road backwards, or more precisely, simply staying in one place. The continued failed efforts to perfect that which had reached past its minus point, the fundamentals. 

Like with the atom, it's the path of bombs, a path of self destruction and a vain muscle display. The other road, is the path of searching for new fundamental elements, of attempts to discover unknown basic elements. It's a road filled with new ideas, like the road of peace.”

Ehud Grably (1961-1994)