IT'S IN THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY, SO IT MUST BE TRUE

"ALL ART is quite useless". Oscar Wilde declared in the famous Preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray. Of course, Wilde was targeting those narrow-minded critics who censure art and writing, and want art to have a clear moral purpose. "There is no such a thing as a moral or an immoral book". Wilde added. "Books are well written, or badly written. That is all".

Wilde was right. Often, art with a moral purpose serves the narrow minded majority.

Here is my latest drawing, roughly based on my beloved Brigitte Bardot. 

Here it is in pencil and then in ink.

Art is, for me, tremendous fun, and a chance to express my ideas about beauty, color and harmony. "Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter". Wilde said, in the words of Basil Hallward, his artist hero in Dorian Gray.

If it is in The Picture of Dorian Gray, it must be true. One of the best novels ever written! 

Have a good night and be well :-)