San Francisco Artist Anna Seven, Original Fine Art, Oil Paintings, Acrylics, Tusche (Indian ink), Watercolors, Tempera, Oil Pastels, Gouache, Illustrations, Logos
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San Francisco, CA 94121
United States
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Painting is playing on a color-violin, seventy-times-seven stringed, and inventing your tune as you play it! Definitely all the technical and media questions shall have their place …but the primary question of all is –can you play ?
John Ruskin
Since I began to feel what color means, I understand that I can do what I like with my colors no matter how realistic it goes. Or let’s say no matter how unrealistic it goes. Who ever really cared about realism only? We always look for something more than just realism. And what is pure realism? We look for mystery and allegory in every piece of realism, as well as we do in our lives. Life is terribly realistic but we always look for more and we distort our reality in the process.
As for allegory, I have never been a great fan of it myself. I know it sounds ironic when you look at my paintings but I prefer the word applicability . You are free to find an allegory if you wish so. I give you absolute freedom to understand my art in... |
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