I think a painting is more like the real world if it's made out the real world.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal.
You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'
The thrill of a photo-realist painter is if you get really close to the painting, it looks just like a photograph. Whereas in my case, if you get close to my paintings, they totally fall apart - so I'm about as far from a photo-realist as it gets.
See, when I paint, it is an experience that, at its best, is transcending reality.
Painting, for me, is a dynamic balance and wholeness of life; it is mysterious and transcending, yet solid and real.
Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see.
The real sustains the same relation to the ideal that a stone does to a statue - or that paint does to a painting. Realism degrades and impoverishes.
The narrative oftentimes is that everything that comes out of the hood is 'real,' and so I thought, 'I'll base it on the absurd, the not real. I'll twist the idea of real on its head and see if I can get away with it. I'll make paintings that come not from a place but through an abstract gaze.'
I think art is more glorious than life but not more real.
Painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the representation of real and existing things.