The psycho-epistemological process of communication between an artist and a
viewer or reader goes as follows: the artist starts with a broad abstraction
which he has to concretize, to bring into reality by means of the appropriate
particulars; the viewer perceives the particulars, integrates them and grasps
the abstraction from which they came, thus completing the circle. Speaking
metaphorically, the creative process resembles a process of deduction; the
viewing process resembles a process of induction.
This does not mean that communication is the primary purpose of an artist: his
primary purpose is to bring his view of man and of existence into reality; but
to be brought into reality, it has to be translated into objective (therefore,
communicable) terms.