If I ask you a question, what is the role of art? There may be few people who can accurately answer it, and even in the eyes of many people, art is not a "just need" for survival, it is dispensable, existence can be the icing on the cake, and there is no existence and little impact.
Returning to the question itself, art may not be as important as eating and dressing, but it has the ability to express thoughts and primitive emotions, and as human beings, we can usually be moved by a work of art, which is why watching a movie makes us cry and watching a painting in a daze.
The existence of many things in this world cannot be defined by "useful" and "useless", and this is the case with art. Miroslav Zgabay, a watercolor painter from Czechoslovakia, used a group of watercolor portraits to explore the question: "What can we read from a painting"?
It is understood that Miroslav Zgabay is a completely self-taught artist who only began to paint in his twenties, but in just a few years, he "went out of the circle" with wonderful realistic watercolor paintings.
The artist is good at representing people in watercolor, and his paintings are usually very low saturation, using the characteristics of watercolor to superimpose the three-dimensional sense of the entire face. His watercolors have a very strong personal character, and unlike our common paintings, each of Miroslav Zgabay's paintings seems incomplete, the faces of the figures are meticulously depicted, and other parts are deliberately hidden or slowly disappear.
Rather than saying that the artist uses a lot of brush and ink to depict the facial features of the character, it is better to say that he is using the brush to depict the emotion, the delicate character watercolor painting captures the fragile human emotion, we can see the emotions on the face of each character, such as sadness, exhaustion or loneliness, etc., and then see the experience of a person's inner world.
The watercolor portraits of Miroslav Zgabay are vivid and realistic, and many things can be read from them, which precisely illustrates the role of art, that is, to replace the character for expression. Next, let's take a look at the watercolor portraits created by this artist and feel the complex emotions conveyed in the paintings.