Occasionally, well-meaning people compliment my paintings by saying how real or "accurate" they look. It's interesting to me that "accuracy" is how many people gauge the quality of art.
In the book Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, Betty Edwards talks about how children initally love drawing, but then become frustrated because they are unable to "make it look real", and give up on drawing.
When I'm working on a painting I frequently find myself trying to make it look as totally accurate as possible. Is art really about duplicating reality as perfectly as you can? It is true that I will get admiration from a certain type of person if the painting looks like a photo...
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