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Realism of Manuel Cusí i Ferret
This realism is far more appealing and emotionally more intimate than the paintings based on mythological presentations. In that respect, for example, The Birth of Venus by the Italian artist Botticelli depicting the arrival of Venus at the shore after her birth looks remote if not a little artificial, justifying Art for Art’s sake.
A Lady with a Hat — A sketch by the Mother:
Received the following comment: “There has to be some abstraction, otherwise you will get a photograph, and even in a well-treated photograph there’s some abstraction. So then it’s a question of what abstraction appeals to the artist and to the viewer.”
There is already an element of abstraction in these paintings, a model sitting in front of the artist and he making a painting based on his perceptions and æsthetic penchants and proclivities and preferences which may not be necessarily there in even creative photography. That subjective element is an abstraction. So the question is, how close is realism to the object itself? It can never be, — and that is art. When Monet is painting lilies one sees more of Monet in them rather than what is there in front of him.
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The Mother: “The discipline of Art has at its centre the same principle as the discipline of Yoga. In both the aim is to become more and more conscious; in both you have to learn to see and feel something that is beyond the ordinary vision and feeling, to go within and bring out from there deeper things. Painters have to follow a discipline for the growth of the consciousness of their eyes, which in itself is almost a Yoga. If they are true artists and try to see beyond and use their art for the expression of the inner world, they grow in consciousness by this concentration, which is not other than the consciousness given by Yoga.”
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I have added in the main post a sketch by the Mother — A Lady with a Hat. She says:
Music and painting fascinated me..
All aspects of beauty, but particularly music and painting, fascinated me. I went through a very intense vital development during that period, with, just as in my early years, the presence of a kind of inner Guide; and all centered on studies: the study of sensations, observations, the study of technique, comparative studies, even a whole spectrum of observations dealing with taste, smell and hearing – a kind of classification of experiences. And this extended to all facets of life, all the experiences life can bring, all of them – miseries, joys, difficulties, sufferings, everything – oh, a whole field of studies! And always this Presence within, judging, deciding, classifying, organising and systematising everything.
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The Winds of Wonder 
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