Art is the sum of imagination and reality.

There seems to be a bush where is the beginning or source of the river in that image. Then we look at that thing a little bit sharper. In our eyes, the bush is turning to the head of the bird. Or sharper saying the head of the finch. And the beginning of the river is in the mouth of that bird. So when we are looking and thinking about the purpose of this image. There is one message that the artist hide in the image.  The message is that even the longest and largest rivers have the top point. There was something that made water follow the route. Even the largest rivers get their begin from the small stream. When the stream is making the deeper lane.  That thing will collect water in that lane. But there was always the first water molecule that traveled through that route. Of course, the source of the flow is hidden from the eyes. But that source still exists. It might seem like some bush, but we see the very well-known shape of that thing.  There is the final source for all water that f

This painting portraits the probably young painter working in his studio. The remarkable detail in this painting is the face of the painter. The face seems covered with a mask. And if Rembrandt didn't make that painting in the 17th century, I would swear that the painter's face is covered by using plastic or some other synthetic material. The face of the painter is black, like two bites of carbon. And that will bring the demonic or mysterious aspect in that painting.  Sometimes I have asked myself, that is it possible that the famous cartoonist Hérge has got the idea for the face of his famous cartoon character Tintin from the painter, who is acting as the model in this painting. Sometimes that character seemed a little bit scary like a "vampire". Because the skin is white and the eyes are weird. But otherwise, he seems kind.  Or maybe the painter is not a demonic character. But he is very mystic. What does he think? And the major question, that rises in my head is, d