Decorative art is everywhere and makes for a very
beautiful environment, that said it’s story is all told in
one glance.
It brightens up a room with beautiful colors or dark
colors and makes one happy to look upon it. It is much
needed everywhere for the joy it contains.
For example, this beautiful seahorse pillow is a perfect
example of a bright pop of color and a delightful
creature to make you happy to look at.
In fact so delightful I even used him on my new business
cards 😊.
No deep meaning, just a beautiful creature with a
brilliant pop of color.
A spot of happiness in a day.
Now fine art is a totally different story, and as I am
dictating this, that's exactly what fine art does, it tells a
whole story, a very complex story, a story so complex
that you can look at it day in and day out and still
discover new nuances, feelings and emotions in it.
Even new characters formed by the positive and negative
spaces in the painting.
For example this painting -I am not sure of the exact date
I painted it, but it had to have been at least six or seven
years ago.
After I completed it and again all my paintings are
painted with no intent, no intent to draw , no intent to
portray a scene, nothing but just adding color and lines
to a blank canvas, the title was instantly in my head as it
always is and the title to this painting is "America Awaits
With Bated Breath for The End of Fascism in America."
It has a date or time in it that is very apparent by the
331.
Now here is where the complexity of a fine art painting
comes into play.
When I painted it the nurse stood out to me, at that time I
thought it was just a crowd of common people, good
people but then after Alex Pretti was killed by ICE , I
thought yep that's it, that's who the nurse is.
Now if you look at the nurse, the nurse actually has a
blue hat on symbolizing male.
I saw this almost right after Alex Pretti was killed but
today for the first time I have the painting out and
looking at it, and I also see the symbol in the nurses hat.
It is a symbol of a man with a dog like face reaching out
to someone lying on the ground and right behind his
head you can see the ICE Gestapo.
Now here is where even more complexity comes in. - to
have him depicted as a dog is a very very beautiful
compliment as dogs are the most loving kind animals on
the planet -even spelling God when spelled backwards.
Now since we have not ended fascism it will be
interesting to see what else pops up in this painting as
we go along trying to regain our beautiful democracy
once again.
And by the way I am absolutely over the moon about the
fact that I have no idea what will pop up -how I love the
metaphysical with all my heart.
So in conclusion and very succinctly, fine art always,
always, always makes you think.
Fine art invariably leads to a discussion of meaning.
Whereas decorative art, never does.
