Personally, the study got me thinking of the energies and emotions put across through art. I love art work. Take for example Madrains’ art work. So devoid of emotion, he only uses straight lines, creating shapes like squares and rectangles in the three basic colors of blue, red and yellow (plus black and white). To him, focus on design and composition was the most important part of his work; “no emotions to screw it up”. I sometimes wish life was this plain and simple, devoid of all emotional complexity yet so beautiful to the eye like Madrains’ paints. If it were, then I would have my kid locked up in a room mugging those formulas but life isn’t so.

It is at this point that my favorite artist pops to mind. I love Delacroix. There is no doubt that he is a ‘great’ - A romantic painter whose art plays with emotion. His goal is to bring out the emotions in the viewer of his works. And indeed he achieves this. Whenever I take a look at his painting; “Liberty leading the people”, I get a heavy shot of patriotism and I am sure this is what is intended. Sometimes I feel so angry about the wrongs of this world and I want the world to understand why and feel a little angry too…… I mean, man must express himself and seek to be understood. Then why do we repress our kids hoping that we are doing well, yet all we are doing is making them miss out on their childhood? My thoughts then lead me to expressionism. In my opinion the master at this is Munch. Munch and others like him express their feelings, attitudes and outlooks on life but don’t really care if the viewer gets what it is they are trying to say. Mixing and matching up things, not using any standard form of symbols or using one symbol to express something different. They don’t seek to be understood and
have left us guessing and yearning for more. Sometimes I feel like screaming my lungs out just like a kid would when playing about along the street not caring for what the passerby will think about it all. Expression in free space must be the best form of art! Sure childhood
fantasies don’t drive society but they are what make life worthwhile. As much as we want our kinds to excel, we should give them this space to express themselves.