David Orozco

I’m a painter, that’s all! Since a young boy I realized I had a passion and a talent for painting, but I don’t consider my self an artist (it does not interest me). I simply have a physical and mental need for painting. There are many like me who oppose to be labeled as artists.

The intellectual say that painting is dead.

So I guess I’m dead too.

Criminals!

When I say, “ I paint.” They look at me as if I was an archeological find.

It is important that we stay true to ourselves and not fall into the labels that intellectuals have disvalued and throw around. This occupation that Picasso, Matisse and many art fathers worked so hard to get started, society is now handing it out to every soul that has enough paper to pay for it.

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Not to say esthetically. You could also say that the guillotine serves to cut a Camembert de Normandie or to slice a ham of Bayonne.

Why must every single of these concepts need to be explained? So what should I, Ronald Orozco, do? Do I keep painting? 
Of course I am going to keep painting! You could say that I am upset; of course that I am upset: I recently started my amateur career as a painter, and they tell me: “No, beloved. Painting is dead.” Still, I seek inspiration from those of the past, in order to defeat modernism. I have adopted the need and the willingness to reconstruct myself a pictorial language that is being destroyed by the intellectuals.

It is necessary to learn again the pictorial alphabet to reutilize this beautiful language, going back to simple times. Simplicity does not provoke scandal or fashion. I always mediate on what Roberto Longhi once said, "... Every time that art suffers a historic saturation, density is added combining or imposing the search for movement, to put it plainly, it is representing the Greeks against the Egyptians, the Gothic versus Romanesque, the baroque architecture in front of the Renaissance ... the circle ellipse happens. " I am a part of the