I am an artist, as a hobby, and my work is usually realist, I do portraits, but once in a while I will venture in the, not abstract, but more contemporary, which I enjoy a lot because I like to put special meaning on each one, and I paint them much faster than the detailed portrait, which has to be as close as possible as the sitter, people must be able to tell who the person is.
Anyway, I have a couple that I painted in four small canvas (8" x 10" ) each, one is very telling because it is called "One night stand" (they meet, the go out together, they have sex, then she leaves), I don't have to explain that one, but the other one reflects what I see is "Society's Cycle", and only one person has been able to describe most of what is happening. I put it in a show and I had to write down the description because, and this is from my personal view, I do want people to understand exactly what and why I painted each one.
When I didn't have the description it just flew over most people's head, and they just walked by it like "OK, interesting", but after I put the description they stayed, some laughed, most had comments, which was great.
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