Rabbits enjoy life because they enjoy being rabbits, painters paint because they enjoy painting. Paintbrush rabbits examine the fine line that now separates documentary pictures and fine art images. Is that what art wants? Nat Tate continues to have a meta-life more real than some of contemporary artists.
How to predict if your picture will die? Nature and art are ephemeral by essence, art nurture discriminating minds. Physical and emotional effects converge in good pictures to suggest the transience of life.
Because time is the great artist. Because every artwork is a statement about the nature of our existence, only unexplained paintings are art.
How and why time has become a tool for artists working in a disturbingly fragile medium? Emmelina’s paintings and drawings remind us that every moment and every object is affected by constant change and that, eventually, we are also subject to such inevitable change.
We don't make ephemeral art easily but the one we do is for life.
Baudelaire, “Le vieux Paris n'est plus (la forme d'une ville / Change plus vite, hélas! que le coeur d'un mortel”—the old Paris is no more, a city’s form / changes quicker, alas! than a mortal’s heart.
Everyday artists make art from the stuff of everyday life and therefore rejected by a wide audience. Perishable art is about the ephemeral nature of being because time has an elegiac and mystical intensity.
Bold visual storytelling and layered symbolism, nothing will last to the end of art.