Anticipation

My training in art and writing was traditional. We first mastered figure drawing, foreshortening and perspective before being permitted to paint abstractions. Painting was a craft, not child's play.

Perhaps that's why I tend to collect abstract paintings. I envy their fluidity, their spontaneity. They capture my imagination. Or perhaps, as T. S. Eliot said, "…human kind cannot bear very much reality."*

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The pre-Hispanic icons in Alberto Ramos' work convey primal messages. I love the luminosity he brings to his paintings. Revelation is imminent; omens are everywhere. He creates a sense of anticipation in every work.

*T. S. Eliot in Burnt Norton I from Four Quartets, 1944