Contemporary Romantic Art. What I mean for Romanticism.
Romanticism is for me something else as people normally defines it: it comes from the soul, it is a way of feeling, that softens everything, gives everything a poetic quality. It is something that happens within us, before being an artistic trend in a certain period of time. Romanticism expresses in my acrylic paintings through round, softly focused shapes. This is the way I interpret some realities, to bring them into my acrylic paintings: no stiffness, no sharp-cornered lines. When there is hardness, it comes from the eyes, from the expression of the portrayed person, while his/her shape remains soft. Romanticism is for me a way to live, it is a filter that gives a certain color and a certain light to what happens, because it is so that we like to see it. In my acrylic paintings a romantic atmosphere surrounds everything I paint and some viewer interprets this as longing for the past. But the emotions that live in us have no time. Have love or tenderness ceased to be "up-to-date"? They are no longer "up-to-date" only for the ones who inhibit and deny them. And so, to reveal some denied realities becomes topical.And these denied realities create inconsistency: we live our soap operas because we need dreams, but we don't realize the games we are taking part in and we fall into a trap of infinite misunderstandings. What I mean for romanticism is to go under the surface, to give a significance that helps us to come out of endless repetitive situations. My romantic paintings point the finger at attitudes, poses, moments that can reveal inconsistency to a careful observer.
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