What's Real? The Potential for Invention. Painting and Brainstorming. Cesar Santos 

After 30 years as a representational painter I started working in this method. I believe that this is actually what one practises seeing, and technique for. This is actually where one departs from painter to become "artist". This is what you do when you graduate from the school of technique and formality. It also makes you feel very satisfied to have created something unique and truly your own. Good to see you doing it Cesar!

I’ve admired your precise figurative work for many years. I love this different, non objective or abstract change in direction. Paintings that come from within, perhaps multidimensional. Reminds me of Hilma af Klint. Thanks for sharing your work.

Hey Cesar, I have been fascinated by your recent work. I read in the comments that people interpret your art differently; some don’t understand, some are angry, some see nothing at all, and some others percive a variety of things. It’s funny how I have been staring your paintings for hours in search of answers, and I laugh because I understood the frustration of other people in the comments. You gave no answers; the only explonation I got were my own made-up meanings I gave to the forms I was trying to make sense of, which made me realize a lot. Thank you for the reflection you raised in me through your art. I wish you all the best!

very interesting abstractions reminiscent of early 20th century surrealism.

Amazing abstract figurative painting style

Love from dublin Cesar.....nice work!

fluency in the noverbal language of art cesar has mastered

Thank you, i really enjoy seeing and hearing your thoughts about the process

This is what mastery looks like.

You must follow your path- you have no option. I’m just back from Florence, was so hoping I would bump into you. Travel well my friend.

so amazing! Never stop making videos. I'm loving the process

Cesar you did it. You created something new from this old style. Bravo. Although it seems chaotic, stressed and missing the human (figure).

Amazing. Poetic. Spiritual. Profound. A true teacher in every sense of the word.

Amazing concept

you are wonderfule artist.

Great work sir. ❤❤❤❤❤

My brain associates a lot of this work here with cloth. The shape plays a part in that but the treatment of the edges has the most sway.

I actually really appreciate growth and change. I know that a lot of artists dont appreciate comparison, but i have noticed that Jared French started down the line of pure form as well. A lot of people don't understand that the heart knows the matter that the matter knows not. Keep following your instincts, i think its always for the best

Great back on RU-vid, Great work 👍

Just amazing. I can tell that you are having alot of fun. Inspirational

This is fantastic! Thank you for sharing and explaining your reasoning and mental process behind your work.

Organic. Remarkable work.

good point. we should just enjoy the creative work for what it is, our brain putting colours together to create something from our imagination and can inspire other people's brain

Beautiful building up in layers, like the old masters worked, and different applications, thin washes and dry scumbling. I see crumpled fabric and fleshy appendages, abstract surrealism.

Only a few will understand ! Great work, continue on your path 👏🔥♥

You are one of a kind artist. NATURAL

Exactly you took the words out of my being

Beautiful work . Bravissimo !

One thing i should add on this topic is that “art”, from music to painting, should always preserve a sense of conversation between Who makes it and who observe it. The idea is thst at some point artists starts to self celebrate thier meta cognition soliloque and thats when the medium starts to lose its true potential. Art shouldnt speak only about the one that makes it but more importantly about everyone observing it, thus remaning intelligeble

Hello. I would like to express how exciting this is to see from you. What a excellant vid to pop up now at the moment i began to watch. The contrast in this new direction. In opposition to the old. Lends the bridge between them and the idea is. It can be. It will be. Im inspired. Thank you my friend. Good luck.

Gran cubano!!!! Sin dudas una de nuestros grandes! Gracias por compartir tu arte y conocimiento!

Beautiful painting Cesar👏🏼👏🏼

Thank you for the video. Ive seen your art develop over the years. Would you say this stage of your art is like perfection of surrealism as it is pure form without subject matter recognition or definition?

It is so amazing to watch you paint Cesar!!! Nothing like watching a Master do what he does best!!!

Extremely fascinating interview 0___0 holy cow. You have some very intriguing perspectives.

Although I am not necessarily a fan of abstraction………this is wonderful! Cesar, you are truely magnificent in you use of paint..A TRUE MASTER!……..thank you so much for sharing. When will they be opening the Cesar Santos Museum????. That would be amazing, to be able to visit your own personal museum………you don’t need to have passed / died to have your own museum…….truely a pleasure to the eyes and soul. ❣️🙏🏻🎨😎😇🤩

Very good!

It's a great art work sir. Sir please make a video on how to prepare a wooden pallets (smooth) for oil painting 🖌️🎨

Excelente, haces que yo me comprenda

Complimenti straordinario lavoro, grazie per le tue spiegazioni.

This is easily one of the coolest art related videos I’ve ever seen. The narration is thought provoking, editing and filming is engaging, and the painting is stunning! Well done man

Dear Cesar, i dont know from what realm are this figure? But you beushstrokes are so abstract just for high realismo.Brushwork 10/10 also composition is wow this is imposible to make reproduction no traces help, so many angles ,this is masterpiece, pricles.. Impossible works.❤❤❤ Wish i know to make something like this.

What an inspiration you are Cesar. I always enjoy your thoughts and ideas on life, nature and art.

The king is speaking facts

❤❤❤Superrrrr😊😊😊😊

Siempre hacendo buenas pinturas. Parabiens!!!!!!

Like your art

Excellent. It’s inspiring to see you expand your vision, which has long been incredible.

I really want to see from you real paintings in the style of realism, portraits, landscapes.❤

Beautiful artwork my dear teacher!

Sus nuevos trabajos no nos dejan indiferentes. Esta maraña de formas humanas y no humanas nos atrapa. Es un gran arte en muchos sentidos, pero también en el sentido de que también es una prisión, una jaula: los espectadores somos bestias formadas por y para el lenguaje, atrapados en esta obra, en busca de alguna chispa de comprensión. Gracias por dejarnos conocer tus procesos y tu magnifico trabajo.

Good show!

Inventive in his pure form, like watching Picasso changing shapes in that documentary. We NEED to do that from time to time to escape from reality and formalism, starting with lose, firm, strong and soft brush strokes, that is fun and happy, pure childish freedom; then, our brain fill and organize shapes, like when we try to match clouds or floor imperfections with images. All that is personal, but, as you continue "improving" realism, I already can understand what you are up to and, at one point, I can see I would be doing something like you did, because now is more "formal", it's a logical improvement. Exactamente igual que la libertad de dibujar un drapeado, pero que contiene un "por qué" está hecho así y sabes que tiene sentido. Un saludo y gracias por compartir

figurativamente abstracto , como si mezclases agua y fuego genial bro

Awesome ❤❤❤

Wow! Some of these works remind me of art in some tarot cards.

Nice

Wonderful work Cesar! Te pare en Piazza Della Signoria el pasado Noviembre. Saludos!

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New Max Ernst :)

Good video . Interesting video. You mention _your fortunate to have large space_ which _allows you to play with Large canvas_ . You also mention _thinking_... But _thinking is working with limited information_ / limited Data. Also in 2023- *now cause of technology* More _people have access_ to technology and _many folks can share their fine art works_ thanks to the Internet & their are tons of wonderful artists. Keep sharing.

Интересная, захватывающая Живопись.

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hi! Cesar, how are you? Whenever I don't understand something about painting, I often watch your videos, it helps me a lot in learning. Will there be any book related to figure painting atelier? From which I can learn figure painting like ateliar.

You can imagine the Landscap from your Sleeping dream , imagine the Color , imagine the Composition, imagine every detailing , imagine everything on your Canvas without the Photo , because This is your own World inside your Deeply Minds just like Vincent VanGogh . And That's the Real Arts out of the Academic school ！ sometimes , Cooking is a Great Arts that I believe , food is much more important than the Canvas , Vincent can eat the Color , he must believe that Color is the Best Food on your Canvas , that's why He can be the Greatest Artist in the World .

the reaction to your recent work has been interesting lol people are obsessed with understanding and then get frustrated because there's no answer given they cant seem to just embrace the uncertainty, or go beyond understanding only through the eyes some even have the attitude to think they can tell you what type of work is a waste for you to do lol i saw some say that hopefully you come back from this journey soon but perhaps its their journey with you thats come to an end some said at least great works made them think but they struggle to figure this out, but is that struggle not thinking, perhaps the works they say made them think just gave them answers. ive noticed its like people want to be told the correct thing to think, and with figurative things like anatomy etc make it easy to tell "good" and "bad" and some said they cant even tell if your recent works were good or bad which frustrates them lol they cant say in good faith that they like it off feel, mood etc they need the safety of objective errors like anatomical to validate their opinion and not be open to ridicule. ironically i saw one that said you going to abstract shows u never had imagination lol these responses show so much of our species the need for answers and certainty fear of not "getting it" limits we've placed on thinking, imagination and concepts like that sometimes art is an experience, there is no destination, nothing to get, just the experience of viewing the artwork, and the primal and instinctual responses it gets from you as a person and individual. art is expression, and somethings cant be expressed concretely, they have to be felt etc all in all the reactions to your current work from some of your fans has been very interesting. funny enough im not a figurative person myself, but your current work has been nothing short of masterful, from from a technical and expressive standpoint.

For sale ?

So many change in your paints since the begining, like life. I search a chromatic well like the one you put on your wall, where do you got it?

The dominant forms in your paintings are like piles of laundry that have blob forms underneath them, sometimes with vague human parts. Reminds me of that crayola simkins guy. Honestly those paintings could last a long time.. but they have a creepy anti-nature anti-natural lighting effect... I must ask you is that really the kind of vibe you want to put out into the world? When you create a painting you are creating another world and to be honest the ones that you are creating, though they may be bigger and more technical/profitable than others... It is not a world that inspires me or one that brings peace or curiosity. Your paintings look like piles of death with human clothing void of life or joy. Why did you abandon nature and nature's true forms, and the movement and lighting of nature?

I'm wondering what type of art movement Cesar's new works would be classified as, if there could be a classification? Abstract Expressionism? Abstract Realism?

I think that it would look awesome if you would mix the realistic figures with an abstract expressionistic background and paint drips. Mixing old and new.

GRACIAS POR COMPARTIR: CERSAR SIEMPRE NOS SORPRENDE, ME ENCANTA ESA IDEA QUE PIENSAS EN NOTA DE IMAGINACIÒN.

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whats your opinion on ai art?

Master can you make videos in spanish also please !

It’s sad to watch someone with such great talent slowly lose their mind.

I've been painting abstract for a few years now, and find that no-one appreciates it, or engages with it as much. galleries, other artists, collectors.. no-one seems to give it as much time as they do when the painting is something realistic, something recognisable, and has subject matter, visually. is that just a human thing ? that only high end art has to be super realistic, like a photo... ? is there a snobbiness in the fine art world, that these kinds of paintings are true talent, and abstracted, personal works are not.. ? i feel more and more misunderstood and lonely when i paint this way. i feel disconnected, but i blame this on trying to show the online world what i have created, which more and more i am finding is a waste of time and energy, an energy best stored, and used to make even better works. but then the problem is, no-one will ever see them... anyway, i don't know if you feel the same, but that's just my thoughts on what I've experienced when trying to make more personal abstracted works of art. ciao

Do you use ai for inspiration, it looks like an ai painting!

Oye, César Santos, tú estás realmente ante algo grande.

Son increíbles estas pinturas César. Felicitaciones. Algo me hace pensar que vas que necesitar pinceles más largos, al estilo de kooning.

Super Qlt....tienes que trabajar para hacerlo en ESPAÑOL ( men) Yea

Hey Mr. Santos, I’m a visual artist that is wondering if I can get in contact with you. I’ve got a degree in painting from a Liberal Arts school and I’m not sure if I should pursue training at Lyme Academy or go try and pursue a career as a movie director. I live in the Midwest, about as far as you can get from movie making. I enjoy visual art, but I don’t enjoy being isolated and worry about my life if I pursue painting further. I don’t want to be just a hobbyist. All of my friends left for the coasts. I’m just not sure where to go in my life. Do you have any advice as a professional artist?

To each their own. I've my own technique but thanks anyway.

How i say scracht the main get 1000000

Is this on linen or canvas?

Means too say make your own idea out there just like that please speak, thanks

Have you been watching Beef!?

Extrañamos al artista figurativo realista en Cesar Santos, se que quieres pintar tus pesadillas pero desafortunadamente para tus seguidores son de carácter abstracto.

Que mafufadas!!! Ahora quiere romper con lo establecido y está entre Dali y una revoltura como que echó en la licuadora a Dalí, Leonardo, Miguel Ángel y varios pintores y está esa mezcla extraña… la verdad no sé ni qué pensar… para eso ya existe Salvador Dalí

Why don't you paint like VanGogh

tu m faj asci pazz too much silly

Wtf

AI art before it was a thing....

Sorry, but I miss your more realistic style work Cesar 😞

You are a very talented artist. But what you are drawing is mind-boggling. It is a pity that you are wasting your time and paint on such art. You could draw much better pictures. 😊

Dont like painters who talk to much. Mute

Love the process and feeling. Aboriginal language is based on vision because they have no verbal language @davididdonart

Great work sir. ❤❤❤❤❤

Great work sir. ❤❤❤❤❤