{"product_id":"fall-gathering-20897","title":"Fall Gathering","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis painting is presented in a handmade dark brown wooden frame with a white wood liner. The outside framed measurements are 19 x 23 in.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn defense of the narrative of art, by Stephen Scott:\u003cbr\u003e\n\"One difference between literary narrative and that of the visual arts lies in literature's disambiguative function and its ability to formulate and engage patterns of emotion common to conflict and resolution, (or discord and harmony) which at the least provides the experience of resolution. Visual art relies on quick emotive response, based on visual and formal narrative constructions. The strength of visual art is its ability to maintain ambiguity or complexity, which is a directly experiential situation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eVisual art is not only representative but referential, and the strength of its connection to the subject or intention lies in formal aesthetics as well as the intentionality and presence of the artists' experience. The manifestation of skill is perceived either consciously or implicitly, and is a factor which allows for the sharing of idea or experience in an open and communicable manner. It is an ingredient which attempts to link even more traditional standards of beauty to perhaps challenging or seemingly chaotic invention. My concerns for the narrative in art are that the artwork in question could be in danger of losing the strength of its position as a contemplative object when it serves merely as a point of reference to an argument which is best conducted elsewhere.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA main complexity in the expressive aspects of my work lies in the duality of interpretive and self-referential focus. This has led me to follow the post-modernist maxim of art as requiring “an integration of form and content”. My self-referential creative needs have always gravitated toward intuitive and emotive expression of subject in line, form and colour while being directed by a profound attempt to move toward an impeccability in intent.\" - Stephen Scott, 2026\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stephen Scott","offers":[{"title":"16 x 20 in.","offer_id":44442950697047,"sku":"20897","price":1800.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0078\/5937\/2083\/files\/20897.jpg?v=1791818162","url":"https:\/\/gallery78.com\/products\/fall-gathering-20897","provider":"Gallery 78","version":"1.0","type":"link"}