A canvas
Colors vividly swirl
A painted sky
Cloud-swept and clean
A sharp and jagged mountain
Cut with a palette knife
The paint tells a story of its own
Not realistic but real
More real than nature
The truth underneath
Revealing
What the soul sees
What the heart knows
Life uncovered
Art shows the true story
A story so important
Not everyone can understand it
The unfortunate go blindly
Through mountains and meadows
By seascapes and down winding paths
Looking but never seeing
While the artist strips away the veil
And brightens the picture
Revealing what was there all along
Hidden from the ordinary
Knowing there is no such thing
The extraordinary is all around us
Hiding, pretending to be banal, bourgeois
Until the artist brushes truth
On a canvas.
–Christina Knowles (2009)
Image: PALETTE KNIFE Oil Painting On Canvas By Leonid Afremov
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