58-LIGHTS IN THE GARDEN

There are moments of everyday life that can be a starting point for creating images full of charm, in colours, signs and expressions. I think of the many paintings created during Impressionism where the landscape and location combined with images of everyday life prevailed over what until then had been the motive that inspired a painter to paint. No triumphalism or historical moments but normal people in normal activities and in normal places. This showed that beauty could be found in the simplicity of life. Everyday life elevated to a symbol of the new, where technique and colour prevailed and where new theories of seeing could create new and beautiful works. I tried through the simplicity of a stone field, reading in a flower garden or on a terrace or a veranda to follow that path, obviously with my own more modern and effective technique. The simplicity and freshness of the images really won me over.

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