The Legendary artist Paul Cezanne once said, “It is not about painting life, It is about making painting alive.”
This profound statement stems from the innate soul that his paintings possess. The secret of great paintings is not necessarily that they just depict life scenes, objects, landscapes or portraits, even if they’re feelings or concepts from life in abstract paintings, that alone is no matter, to it being widely admired. What makes people cherish a painting’s power is the life pumped into it – the colour, form, delivery and technique perceived at the receptive point of the painting process. Therefore, the painting of life is not what it is only about. It is rather about bringing the painting to life, whatever its nature be. Breathing life into the painting makes life come through effectively for an authentic experience to take place.
On this note, what does making a painting alive entail? It could be a combination of many factors, some of which could be the reality in light, mood of the elements, accuracy or mastered distortion in form, colour and temperature in the painting, smoothness or roughness of brush work, dynamism or stillness created, whether it is alive and multidimensional or dead two dimensional cold stuff. The extremes of experience could be faced based on, not what life is seen as but how much life is felt from a painting for a viewer to take it in and treasure it.
Memorable experiences come through with the extent to which the realities resonate and the expanse to which the artist’s ambition stretches. As the Artist is the one who needs to determine nature, amount, expertise and conveyance of skill, technique, content in context, of energy, It is indeed about bringing the paintings to life and not only about painting life alone.
About Sparsha By Radhika
Exploring possibilities through a variety of these artistic doors, at Sparsha by Radhika, we explore possibilities with concept and feeling to embed memorable experiences for our clients’ spaces to be energized in the most effective and special ways with our abstract paintings in Bengaluru. We work Pan India and Abroad.
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Radhika is an abstract artist creating abstract paintings based in Bengaluru, servicing abstract art requirements for HNI homes and Commercial Spaces.
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