Category: beliefs
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Nude of the Green Room (Homage to Bacon)
Crafting a statement for a painting can be a daunting task. What do I wish to convey? How best to articulate it? Will it resonate with viewers? These questions swirled in my mind as I embarked on this artistic endeavor. Recently, I had the privilege of showcasing my work at an Art Show of Miniatures…
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About the utility of Art
I have read a lot about Art, its meaning, its purpose and about how useful is in the real world. Do we need Art? What is the purpose of an artist? My answer it’s no, we don’t need art, the vast majority of my friends and acquaintances have zero interest in art and never have…
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Taylor Swift and the Duct Taped Banana
–Taylor Swift is better than that music… and let me tell you: Taylor Swift is very bad! And that’s how it ended my introduction of John Cage to my 13yo kid. We started the conversation talking about modern art and it raised up the work “Comedian” AKA the Duct Taped Banana from Maurizio Cattelan. He…
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Nude of the Green Room (Homage to Bacon)
There are some compositions in Francis Bacon’s works that aim the use of geometrical lines to define an architectural space almost like an invisible room that Bacon makes visible by drawing lines as in a comic book. I didn’t realize that until I read about it in an article in internet, I don’t even remember…
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I started this drawing as an exercise in a Facebook group, we have to draw an ordinary object, I choose a kitchen cloth from IKEA and with this I started a conversation with the drawing and it began to get a meaning and a self identity. Jasper Johns back in the sixties created a series…