Creativity Through Discovery | Harold Garde | TEDxWinterPark

Harold Garde is not the same person he was a week ago or a year ago. Harold is constantly evolving as an artist. Art is necessary because it requires critical thinking. Without art we face conformity. Conformity is made to be more important in society than it ought to be, and individuality is constantly challenged. Deciding to be an individual will result in discovery through risks, leading to creativity. American painter and printmaker Harold Garde, whose extraordinary achievements in Abstract and Figurative Expressionism, from the 1950s onwards, make a significant yet under-recognized contribution to Post-War American art. His seven-decade career spans the New York Abstract Expressionists’ later generation of the 1950s – 1960s; turns increasingly towards gestural abstraction into the figurative, mythic possibilities of Neo-Expressionism of the 1980s – 1990s; and remains vitally inventive to present day. Harold Garde’s major bodies of work in painting, drawing, and prints reveal his early and vigorous engagement with Abstract Expressionism as well as the persistent innovation of his mature artistic experimentation. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx