I see art as a way of expressing feelings, points of view, ideas, dreams and much more, which often and for different circumstances cannot be expressed in words.
The epochs of history were not always suitable for expressing certain words or ideals, nor for making known ways of thinking, or there was censorship on certain occasions and words could not flow, there was no freedom as it were.
That is why we artists have a way of expressing ourselves in silence, through brushstrokes. Although it is true that everyone can paint something and the spectator is free to make his or her own interpretation.
It has happened to me a lot of times that I've made a work or an artistic video and different people see different things. That will depend a lot on each person's perception, experiences, ways of life, points of view, and even their education.
It's like an abstract painting in which everyone sees or feels different things, and that's good. From difference we make a richer world, and we can exchange opinions. And as I mentioned, artists express their inner selves, often as a cry of ideas or ways of revealing themselves to a reality through their works.
With this I include painting, sculpture, music and all artistic expressions, it is like a language that makes things known, but without speaking, you just have to have eyes to see and a critical sense to know what the author wanted to say.
In many of the exhibitions I have been to, this has happened to me, to find messages in the paintings, in the brushstrokes, messages that the artist left there many years ago for someone to discover what he wanted to say or how he felt at that moment.
It is sometimes said that it is easier to write or paint than to speak, and sometimes it is true.
These paintings that I bring you today belong to an exhibition called Latent Modernity, which includes paintings made by various artists at a time in history where one could not have an opinion, but where there were certain things that wanted to come to light.
I liked to keep a few works that seemed to me to be the most striking or perhaps the most beautiful of my tour, or perhaps those that had something to say, or simply caught my eye because of some particular detail.
From this selection there are three that are my favourites, even though they are not my style of painting, but when I saw them I simply said this one.
This work is the first one I selected, I love the way it is done and the objects it represents.
This is the second one, it is disturbing, the telephone is very well done and there is a mysterious shadow looking at it.
And now I leave you this last one, it looks like a simple still life but it is not. What do you see?
Art is a wonderful form of expression where I find freedom and truth.
Thank you very much for joining me today, I wish you a good Sunday. See you soon. Amonet.
All photographs are my own.
