painting
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Should You Keep Trying of Giving Up?
The struggles of submitting for Art Calls. Here I put my reflections about being artist and showing up
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Why People Don’t Buy Art: The Stories We Tell and the Rituals We Keep
For most people, the morning is a ritual of familiarity. My grandfather used to read the newspaper while the radio droned the morning news, offering him a constant stream of updates to critique over breakfast. My mother, more focused, restricts herself to the local news—traffic, weather, maybe a fire or two. My wife, in contrast,…
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Love Conquers All, another story about censorship
In 1602, Caravaggio completed Amor Vincit Omnia, or Love Conquers All. It was the kind of work only Caravaggio could create: Cupid, standing with arrows in one hand, seems to tread casually over symbols of human accomplishment—armor, a lute, a lined notebook—suggesting that love supersedes all human endeavors. The painting was an instant sensation among Rome’s…
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Is this Art? My kid can do it!
In the midst of social gatherings, I often find myself exercising restraint when the topic of art arises. It’s a subject as delicate as the threads of a spider’s web, akin to the impassioned realms of religion or politics. Unlike the latter two arenas, where opinions flow freely like a torrential river, discourse surrounding art…
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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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Countdown: 65 days until delivering my next painting.
After my 100 days project something change inside me, I was the same but at the same time I feel that I have more control on what I am doing as an artist, and little by little I started to participate in art shows here in Canada and in the USA. I moved to Toronto…
Carlos Fentanes 