How good should the paintings be from an artist who has no training as artist, is all self-taught, and from time available from working as an orthopaedic surgeon in an NHS hospital finds a little time every now and then to push the laptop away from the study table and start to paint, only to satisfy the inner desire to express? Henri Matisse once said that he wanted his art to be like an armchair where one could relax after a busy day...what makes an artwork a work of art? Does the label of Piccasso to an abstract artwork suddenly make it a masterpiece of modern art, even if you would need Tim Marlow's eye to see the real art in it? Over the years, art which was the domain of kings and churches and depicted historical and religeous stories became the expression of common man to convey the feelings of everyday life, and eventually to come to street in the form of graffities and street art...and now art is everywhere, there is no bar on how the art is going to look like..the good, the bad and the ugly.
Painting for me is to express what I see around me, it is a means to diffuse my stresses and makes me happy even if I am the only person to like a particular work, after all there is something unique in it: it's my work! So go ahead and see the work I have done in the last couple of years, if you like it, do write to me and if you don't, still write to me and let me know why I should stop painting and start doing something else...
Navid Qureshi.
Tuesday, 4 May 2010
A Walk in The Forest
A Walk in the Forest: View of a dark passage through a park approaching light shining through trees..somewhere in USA.
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