Introspection, ants, spiders
"Tell me what you think the artist is trying to say" Inmaculada had asked me. She and I were looking at a painting, and I could not think of any opening lines.. but she did. Inmaculada.. giving me the look with the eyes and the half smile which says that it would be nice if I answer or maybe there would be no more conversations.. So I did my spiel.. talking about the colours , and the lines and so on which reflect confusion and sadness and .. and she then said .. "Ah.. you have just told me about you.. , not about the artist" Me and the Surrealists Inmaculada's challenging smile is in my head when I decide to go and take a look at the surrealist paintings by my Facebook friend Surrealist and Abstract drawings by Dominique Hunter . I have this image of bearded white men with wild eyes and manic tempers who paint up these bizarre images with cut open bodies and so on.. the one time I saw Ms Hunter - she struck me as the kind of girl who would do well a...