It is the exploration of ones own life and his experiences through it. The real artist considers his work as a way of talking to society and others in it. It usually takes the form of a gift. Sometimes ridiculed always inventive. He is demonstrating to the world his idea of life.
True art goes deeper than the surface.
It affects the viewers subliminal thought often without the viewer even knowing it. An artist is first a person of great imagination and then a great manager of seasoned technique. The technique of painting is not easy to master, and there is no end to the study of it, but more significant than the study of technique is the lifelong study of oneself and all human life in our shrinking world. This is even harder to master than the technique During my earlier years I spent most of my life growing up some 200 feet from the Atlantic Ocean which left me in awe of its beauty and of its vastness and immense powers. I spent most of my summers in New Hampsire where I invested most of my time exploring, drawing and studying the wilderness and wildlife of the White Mountains.