Still life.

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"The little big things seem like nothing, but they give us peace."

(G. Bernanos).

"Great things are achieved after taking care of the small details."

(S. Giuliano).

Still life is the title I reserved for this drawing of mine made on colored cardboard.

It is a title that allows us to identify the type of subject, but in my opinion talking about still life is a contradiction: nature, by its definition, is alive, it becomes dead when it is removed from its habitat (the flower cut from the plant, fruit picked from the tree... ).

Each artist therefore takes on a challenge: he portrays a flower destined to die and, in doing so, makes it eternal!

His skill consists in deceiving, making inanimate objects and dead beings appear real and alive.

This is what I tried to do, I tried to show through my drawing what I saw with my eyes and with my heart. I am alive, looking, observing, identifying with any subject leads me to feel emotions. Emotions are life, never death. The still life represents life seen through our eyes and felt with our heart. The drawing speaks of me, any drawing also speaks of the artist who paints it and who also chooses the objects and the subject for a precise reason, familiar to him or according to his perceptions. If a drawing speaks of an artist, then nature is alive. Always. Even if it represents inanimate objects.

One day, a painter said that no one can draw a tree without becoming a tree in some way, that no one can draw a child by studying only the profile of his form: by watching his movements and his games for a while, the painter enters into his nature and only by doing so can he draw it.

Still life, by definition a pictorial or sculptural representation of inanimate objects, becomes a manifestation of living nature. Alive and eternal: a simple drawing, like a work of art, remains forever, like all the things that really matter, as do the emotions and memories of what caused them.

Every artist can achieve great things if he also takes care of the details.

His plan lives on.

He transmits what he sees and what he hears, therefore what he experiences.

I conclude with this quote, which I fully experience:

"The little big things seem like nothing but they give us peace."

(G. Bernanos).