The Variegated Carps Having a Good Swim in the Lotus Pond

A good honest work should attract and reflect the most secret and revealing rays of Nature. In a certain sense, Nature is only a projection of our own emotions, our own feelings. Therefore even the most impassive painter puts a little of himself into what he is doing; even a clumsy brush-stoke can reveal the inner artistic dream. But only the artist with the height of his ambition could transcribe his sensation into a work which could certainly offers the most exemplary fidelity to Nature’s spiritual requirements.

 

The sensibilities of the beauties of nature are sometimes as fleeting as the very sensation of woodland coolness itself, or the burst of warmth of a stubble field, or the whiff of a seashore, while the tenacious artist could capture them, served by an infallible sureness of hand, to translate the inspiration into art, in which all the fragments are more fertile and valiant than what we can see of the visible world.

 

Seduced by the graceful, vivacious movements and the curvilinear shape of the variegated carps, I paint them with hardly concern than to do a naturist piece. As is, the images being treated in the most realistic manner is a bit banal, nevertheless, I want to make a chase painting out of it which would render the link to the liveliness of nature and the artistic freedom to the elemental and spontaneous by rejecting the sole copy and description.

 

While in a trance so integrated in the total phenomenon of Nature, I must make an effort to obtain enough mental tension to maintain the necessary distance for creative act. For the submerged fish, the vision of their movement in the water would be the main configuration.  However the perceptual response to Nature is one thing, which is an inward inspiration, but to photograph it visibly is another. After the long and deep pondering, I resolve to depict the eyes of the fish with full spirit although that is imperceptible while object is in the motion beneath water.

 

Once the cord to string the harmonies of Nature is found, I attach to it completely, and I make it the theme of my painting. Waving their delicate fins and proceeding gracefully in a certain undulating movement, the fish are relegated to the background. For the fish are just the vivid fragments of the whole orchestration of the composed naturalness.