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We are seeing a hot afternoon under which a peasant is working on his vegetable garden.The realistic approach of the painting gives it a solid and original orientation to the painting. As if the artist tried to give us the glimpse of the place without adding any artistic flavours. It is just a plain view of a day in which one of the working peasants is bent over the ground. It could be represented as a resemblance to the daily life of a peasant in the country or any labour around the world. The deliberate realistic angel gives the subject its originality. You can’t depict a hard-working labour with calorific and decorative way to describe his hardship or his daily work. The description should be […]

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Modern time filled with high-budget movies with special effects, we often forget that imagination and fantasy was not invented in modern time. It was sprouted in a human mind as soon as a human started ‘rational thinking’. Fantasy is a state where everything is possible and everything is allowed. When an artist mixes his fantasy and reality, he conjures up something which is totally unprecedented. Here, I see such combination of reality and fantasy by the Welsh painter Richard Wilson. Here, as the title says, is a capriccio painting bringing two different places at one. In art, capriccio means a painting which consist the combination of fictional or real architecture and buildings. Thus, they are partly real but don’t exist in real world as a […]

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