Art Studio KR

No one can be a painter unless he cares for painting above all else. It is not enough to know your craft - you have to have feeling. Science is all very well, but focus imagination is worth far more. (Edouard Manet) Edouard Manet (1832-1883) At 15 o'clock I got down to work. Original version: bottom - shining black, turning yellow in the upper parts, until completely white. Against this background represented in form of symbols   thrown up  hands. After sketching and applying the first layer of paint: banality, daub. I laid the canvas on the floor and I started  spilling the  paint on it watching carefully what was going on. It moved like a living being, like a human, it changed from second to second. Once it was dark,  and after a while its surface was a bit of white  again. I have never experienced such intense integration with a picture. At any moment, I could stop the growth of paint that was breathing and it  was  alive. Then I thought that I would like to perpetuate it. It

 I was born in a small town with a population of 5,000 before the computer age. The first encounter with art took place in the church. It was there that you could see colorful paintings full of saints, angels, nice and sometimes scary figures. The sculpture of the humiliated Christ, nailed to the cross impressed me. But the most exciting adventure and the way to get to know the world and art were the post stamps. I bought different categories from near and faraway countries, as well as I exchange them with other enthusiasts. Some of them were real graphic works. You cannot imagine how much I could find out from such tiny masterpieces. Those from distant countries stimulated my imagination, made me look for the place of their origin and followed the distance they had to travel. Many times the picture they presented was the subject of profund study. Now, in the modern world, it's much easier.  Sometimes I was lucky to get colector`s items - very beautiful and mysterious stamps of cou