Art is primarily an expression of emotions and with it comes the means to display so much.Thus an artist wishes to capture these feelings on canvass. So many emotions can be portrayed in a simple piece of art. From grief,happiness,insecurity,des pair,right through to despondent. Every existing emotion can indeed become inspiration, and you as the art critic, now become the one who needs the perception to be capable of defining these,to therefore be able to enjoy the works of art.

I recall being taken to an art gallery as a young child,and spending almost an hour staring at the MONA LISA. How clever to be able to be able to create art as this! Every way you look at her, she is staring straight back at you! It's almost as if she wishes to acknowledge your presence.Even back then in the sixties I felt as if she thought I was a child who may touch something I shouldn't.An image,in my opinion, of a watchful parent.

Later when I was nineteen and carrying my first child, I was to visit another art gallery with my mother-in-law.This time "The Madonna" had my utmost attention. So serene and indeed giving off such a strong maternal impression.I couldn't help but stand there happily patting my heavily pregnant bump.What a lovely painting of love, bonding and maternal pride this art portrayed.

I later wandered over to the Australian painting "Tall Trees" it certainly made no impression on me, other than wonder why the Australian Government ever invested so much on a painting that said nothing.In my opinion it showed no character nor meaning.

When would look at art from our own perspective, we often analyze it so different to its original intention, and thus we react as the artist wishes us to, with perception as well as an eye for detail.

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