Marcos Beccari is a watercolor painter, researcher, philosopher, and UFPR design professor who currently resides and works in Curitiba, Brazil. Impressionist realism is regarded as his artistic style. Beccari uses images to create new chromatic arrangements to translate the lighting.
It was until his early twenties that he became obsessed with painting. He simply duplicated previous works, as any beginner would, to get a flawless execution. As a result, representation is never innocent, and realism is never pure. Johannes Vermeer, Winslow Homer, Walter Everett, Stanislaw Zoladz, Stephen Scott Young, and Mary White are his primary influences.
A realistic painting is more than just “true to reality,” it’s also a depiction of what people desire to see. It is then necessary to understand the coordinates that allow them to see what they want. The more the artwork is simplified using such coordinates, the more realistic it gets.
After all, it doesn’t matter much what a face, a ladder, a fabric, or a vase is in the act of painting; what counts is how the colors and hues fill and generate rhythm to what we perceive. Shapes are not subordinated to color; rather, color creates them. The Impressionists show us that there is no such thing as a pure visual “truth” that can be caught, analyzed, and recreated by a purportedly pure gaze. Everything you see is already a description of what you’re looking at; a face, a mirror, a cutout, a memory.
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