Why painting?

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Nowadays our world is crowded with images: photograhy, movies, publicity, tv and all media. There are so many than we hardly "see" them. But PAINTING does not have anything to do with those banal images. Luis Caballero says that Painting is just the opposite: the sacralization of an image....and I agree with this. A painting is a charged image, it is the result of the visual digestion of a painter, that's why a good painting will always catch our attention, it is a "pregned" image, it has something of the artist inside. And it has its own life as well ... that's why it enraptures us!

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NORMA ASCENCIO said…
se declaran inaugurados los comentarios en este tu nuevo blog!

..."la digestion del pintor..." me gustó eso.

congratulations!
14 February, 2007 17:40
Darth Tater said…
I can't say I agree with your comment, Odette. Photography and cinematrography are also ways of artistic expression, where you can also find a "visual digestion" (and more in case of movies) of the artist. In my own point of view, even our own flat or workspace can be understood as a part of ourselves, and why not seeing ourselves as artists also?
14 February, 2007 23:34
Alex Escalante said…
I understand completely what you say, Odette. It's not about the quality, it's about the quantity of the images that won't even let us "digest" them, to keep using the word.

And that is why I sometimes cannot understand such style of painting where the artist depicts reality in a photographic manner. Clearly, there's a choice of what image to fix in time and space, but still I long for an interpretation that puts the image apart from the flow of everyday's and gives it a perspective I wasn't waiting for.

I think the kind of art you do follows this line of interpretation, and is gladly welcomed!
15 February, 2007 17:08
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