Really Seeing an Organic Pear

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Another lesson from the Spanish Master is that organic fruit is more interesting. Fruit in his paintings show blemishes from surviving insect attacks. Why is this more interesting?

Imagine this same pear cast from plastic of a uniform color. The only variances in color and texture would be those created by the lighting. Then imagine that the pear was sitting on a highly polished block of metal, which in turn is posed in a setting of mechanical uniformity, such as machine made paper.

A painting of such uniformly featureless objects would need interesting reflections of the surrounding room to enliven their surfaces. The painting would become a very different statement, eliciting very different emotions from the viewer. It is all a matter of the artist's intent.

However, I regret that I did not include something highly polished in this painting, just for contrast. The wood is somewhat shiny, yet distressed, so I guess it will have to serve as the shiny element.

What do you think? I believe that a painting is completed in the viewer's mind, so I can never know exactly what this painting communicated to you. I welcome your comments.