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Lino Lago’s Pastiche Of Abstract And Realist Art - IGNANT
Spanish artist Lino Lago layers splashes of color over realistic oil-painted portraits creating a palimpsest of the old and the new. French philosopher Emmanuel Levinas famously expressed in his seminal work ‘Old and New’ that “the New and Renewal are peaks of human life.” He went on to address how the search for ‘originality’ and a ‘desire for the Other’ makes the new a constant attraction, while comfort and a ‘nostalgia for origins’ is what keeps us preoccupied with the past. Lago’s ‘Fake Abst