Fo and against essay. classic and modern art

ontemporary art, modern or antique? No one has to choose, not even me. I am interested in contemporary art, I don't know why but I like it, it represents our times and I think it's very important to live in our times without regrets or nostalgia.

Everyone is free to have their opinion. Modern art is already history and everyone accepts it. How can you discuss Picasso or Kandinsky or Fontana? We don't even discuss Damien Hirst o Jeff Koons and they are unapprochable, they already give a sense of respect to those who don't understand it. Personally, I am for it. I loved Jeff Koons at Versailles and Murakami. Gorgeous.

Yesterday I went to the Prado Museum in Madrid. It wasn't the first time but I left that I was very impressed and had some questions. After seeing El Greco, Velasquez, Goya, Tiziano, Mantegna, Antonello da Messina, Tintoretto or Artemis by Rembrandt, Flemish artists like Van der Weyden and Bosch, I thought about painting and emotions, the fact that they are very strong and keep you wanting to see those paintings again and again.

It's nothing original, a lot of contemporary artists went back to painting. I have nothing against installations, performance art, videos, photos, that I like and appreciate, if not for the job that I do - the emotions you get in front of a painting don't leave you easily.

There is an energy, a strength that gets you, it leaves you out of breath. In museums there are millions of people every year, and the number of young people keeps rising. This is reassuring as well.

Beauty has no age and no time frame. When you look at colors, the modern yellows and pinks, against the greens and cobalt blues, reds all the way to cardinal red, you can't help but wonder what happened to those colors. And that light.

The paintings reflect their times, the life, portray the people, their houses, the beauty. Today we have photography to document everything. The paintings do something different because they have been created manually by men, mixing colors and giving life to those characters and situations. We would say tri-dimensional today.

It's not a blog on nostalgia, I want to make that clear, but on art and creativity and emotions you get from a masterpiece. To make it lighter I will tell something that went through my head. Why don't designers go through those colors for their collections?