Many of us artists paint realities, sometimes well represented, sometimes abstractly, sometimes figuratively, but many of us try to capture realities, points of view and emotions on canvas or in my case digitally.
Society is very vast and has many prisms through which to look, and some of these realities seem hidden from the normal people or do not want to be seen.
Marginalised, hidden, unseen realities, but at the end of the day they are realities.
The painter Jorge Rando in two of his rooms, one next to the other, shows two very different realities, but often united by pain.
A reality in which many women are immersed, perhaps out of necessity, perhaps not, but they are. A world where they are shown in different ways, different versions and in their looks we see sadness, sorrow or desolation and in others perhaps the look is already lost.
Walking through the forgotten streets of many cities, at night in solitude, with a life that many don't see or don't want to see, but that exists.
A lot of loneliness, abandoned and they only know the truth inside themselves.
The painter shows this reality in his canvases, a marginal reality, but not as a condemnation but as a sample of what these women go through in prostitution.
It is a way of capturing the theme of dignity as something inherent to the human being, something that should never be lost and should always be respected.
Women, respect and dignity is a recurring theme in the painter, as well as life and love, although in his paintings he often shows the opposite side, it is his way of capturing it.
Showing the reality of things, the suffering, the punished, the wars, the pain, when there should be justice, equality, dignity and above all love.
Rando gives in his paintings a place for all these people.
The adjoining room shows us the theme of Motherhood, always with women and children in a very important role for him.
Many of the faces, like the previous room, are not clearly visible, or seem abstract.
The creativity and time spent by this painter in seeing societies and the truth in them is astonishing and admirable.
In this case he depicts mothers, but mothers suffering for their children and the love in them captured in these paintings.
He returns to the theme of war and the suffering it brings, especially to children, the pain, the tears, the desolation and the sad hearts of these mothers because of what they see and what their children suffer.
Mothers as an act of complete love, the greatest love there is on earth. I believe in those faces it shows clearly, in those hugs, in the protection.
The mother who cares, who is always present, and this, I believe, can be understood not only in the field of war, but in life in general.
A tribute to the mothers who with their love can do everything, unconditional love, the most powerful force in the universe, the force that can do anything.
Rando's work is worthy of admiration, whether you are an admirer of expressionism or not, for its meaning and for what he captures in these canvases, a raw look at the true reality, the one that often the eyes of the common man do not see.
Thank you very much to all of you, I wish you a very good Sunday, see you next time.
Amonet.
All photographs are my own.
