Woman in a Sun Hat, Ben Aronson, 2007
...In working from familiar surroundings, as I often do, I find that in order to raise a work from the commonplace to the extraordinary – from a simple descriptive record to a work of art, the main objective is not merely physical likeness, but rather to aim for the most concentrated form of a powerful visual experience. Perfect spelling alone does not make great poetry, just as the realistic rendering of numerous visual facts will not alone amount to high art. One can consider masters as different in style as Vermeer and DeKooning and still agree that all great painting is derived through some process of interaction with, or distillation from the visible world...
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