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The Work of Art

As years go by and as I mature in my painting, I am more and more convinced that the only important thing for the painter must be to paint, always giving priority to the fund and maybe, forgetting a little bit, even, about the forms. Inspiration for the painter is just a state of mind, and, as human, he is influenced by everything surrounding him and by everything he surrounds himself with, either material or spiritual. Everything influences the work of the artist: pleasure or pain, beauty and ugliness… though there comes a time when ugliness becomes beauty and pain, love.

Showing all this in the canvas is what the painter does from his interior, not owning the result, as when the work is once executed, it is no longer his and it has its own soul and life; that way, it can communicate to all the ones willing to start a dialogue with it. The work of art is no fashion product “that is in”… “the current trend”… art is something more, it is something different; and that is why, I, as a painter, I have always rejected to send pictures of my paintings to entities, museums, galleries, that did not know my work and wanted to see it; had I done it, they would have gotten the packaging but not the soul which only lives inside the painting. The work of art must be contemplated in its whole reality, and not in its packaging and, if there is no time to see it because there are other priorities, then, let it go, for the time being… or for eternity.


Jorge Rando, Malaga, October 2002