The Meaning in Abstract Art
The Meaning is Always in the Eye of the Beholder
What did the painter
Try to say
With texture and color
And the images displayed?
A word of explanation
On a small hint of leaning
Would spare our wondering minds
From trying to capture
The painter's meaning.
Not ever knowing
What is in another's mind,
Well uncover the meaning that we seek
It's there for us to find.
It is present but not out there
On the wall where the paining hangs-
It is somewhere here inside the mind
Of the viewer there that day.
A painter once just told me
"I pant pictures, and that's all-
The meaning is all up to you."
And he got it right for us all.
What we see is processed
By who and what we are.
Our minds all see things differently,
Both up close and from afar.
Not just pastels or acrylics
But the events we witness to-
The Rashamon of every moment
Is not me - It's you.
Published by David A. Reinstein, LCSW - Featured Contributor in Technology
Clinical Social Worker, psychotherapist, born in Boston and a relatively unscathed survivor of the 60 s. Fan of technology, guitars, creating music and poetry. Mental wellness coach, staff trainer and parent... View profile
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21 Comments
Post a CommentWonderful. Like a visual "poem" often what you bring to it!
Exactly. Picasso says for this reason, art is always evolving....both the painter as he paints and of course, the viewers.
Leave it to a therapist to work Rashamon into a poem!
Simply perfect!
Great poem.
Sometimes I feel that way when I read poetry.
Great work as usual :)
metaphors on canvas
Great poem about different perspectives.
Subjectivity... is so difficult to explain... Great poem...