Realism in Art

Jun 7, 2017
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The window to the world is the Internet and so the whole concept of immediate issues has a different meaning in comparison to… oh, I don’t know, half a century ago, when I was an innocent baby. Presently, one may be more worked up about incidents happening on the other side of the planet and one may think the predicament of a group of people is already effecting our own community; either strengthening its ties or breaking it apart.

I paint what I see… and that is that the world is changing. The woman across the ocean I feel so close to in her fight, helps me define who I am, better than people two feet away. I want to be like her and I don’t want to be like my neighbor… who by the way, not to be petty, never waters his plants and throws cigarette butts right into my cabbage patch… oh, well.

So am I an abstract painter or a realist?

Let’s not worry about it too much, after all didn’t Publius Ovidius Naso said, and I quote:

“Dude, it’s all poetical license”

I paint change