Cedar Podor at Age 4 by Miklos Legrady

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Based in Oakville, Ontario, Canada

Cedar Podor at Age 4, Acrylic on Canvas, 2025, 36" x 48"

My personal concern in this painting was to have form follow function, the function being to create fascination. In this painting, creating fascination means applying the right aesthetics, the correct vocabulary and grammar of visual language. That meant following one's visual instinct in terms of contrasts between dark and light, shades and colours, masses of tones, and the repetition of lines and broad shapes. The result, of course, is a fascinating beauty.

Beauty means that we are drawn to looking at the work for a longer time than if the work were ugly. While enjoying an emotional reaction to the aesthetics, we unconsciously absorb a statement that was unconsciously embedded in the work. It might be capricious to explain what that statement is, since visual language best states that which cannot be translated into words, that which operates on the level of an emotional language. I assume it consists of both our feelings towards a child as much as our response to the foundations, the grammar and vocabulary of visual aesthetics, which teaches us the structural elements of a properly assembled reality.