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Five Senses


When in the mornings I enter my studio to prepare “my working day”, the “almost” same ritual repeats, which starts with the smell. The senses are like the shadow that always accompanies you. If you stop to think about the process of creation, you realize how important the senses the Supreme Creation has given us are.

I shall not analyze in this writing the importance of each one of them, but today I shall make a mention.

The look explores and opens the way to the process of artistic creation in which the rest of the senses will take part and prominence to make the work of the artist complete. When writing these thoughts, what I want is for the spectator of a work of art, when communicating with it, to be aware about the fact that the artist has really put his “five senses” into it, to make its production possible.

Knowing how to use all those gifts artists are given to achieve their works depends only and exclusively on them, each one within his possibilities and preparation.

If we observe the works of the different artists we will clearly realize the base they are constructed over. All the bases are valid if you know how to maintain the structure of the well realized work. I will not finish these letters without talking about painting more specifically. The act of painting does not end in the preparation of the canvas and representing “something”. That can be the beginning of the path; reaching the end is that “something” becoming a synthesis which, having come from the exterior, becomes an intrinsic part of the painter so that he can represent it in the canvas with all his senses and all the components he is able, to achieve that work realized freely and with no servitude.

Jorge Rando, Malaga, June 2010