Michael,

What a wonderful painting. A simple theme, but timeless in the beauty it conveys.

I have been remiss in that I have never taken the time to exchange a few words with you on this Website, although I have followed a few of the threads you posted on. While I do have a basic knowledge of art, I am very much the dilettante in this area. Because of your posts on various threads I took the time to view some of your work over the Internet.

By far, the one painting that stuck in my mind was one of your earlier ones called, “Sculpturess”. Please correct me if I am wrong, but from my untrained eye it appears that you focus strongly on lighting more than form, and that you have a distinct preference for darker shades. The overall sense of life that I get from viewing your art is one of “intensity”, yes that’s it – that’s the response I have to most of them. Am I even close?

Wrong, right, or in-between: I greatly enjoyed viewing your artwork.

George

(Edited by George W. Cordero on 11/04, 8:25pm)

Hi George,

Thanks for your compliments and it’s interesting to hear your contemplations, and I am glad you dove in.

Light, intensity, and darkness = neat. But I think "sense of life" needs to be tied to the subject matter, not exclusively, but the kinds of things I spend time working on...like real life things I perceive around me, the symbolism of objects, human spiritual ideals in other works...but, your right, I think they are delivered in an intense way.

About form, there is a very interesting problem:

You cannot create light without form and space.

You cannot create form without light and space.

You cannot create space without light and form.

Da Vinci's Mona Lisa is one of the earliest and greatest examples of this "triple-threat".

Michael