lifecarouselle: Metaphorical Realism

While enjoying my last lazy days before college, I started seeking more information on some of the things that impressed me most during this summer. Among those is an exhibition of the Russian-born painter Vladimir Kush, now living in the USA. His work is very close to surrealism, but he refers to his art as metaphorical realism, a concept which I find very appropriate. Now I must tell you I don't know much about painting and when I visit a museum, or art gallery I see everything through the eyes of an admirer, who can either be touched or not by the paintings. I cannot analyze their quality or other technical aspects, I can only tell you whether they enchanted me or not.
What impressed me is that Kush's paintings all reveal an idea. They are the plastic side of a metaphor. He paints real things, but the originality lies in the assotiations he makes, which send to another level of understanding. In his works, different things combine in a metaphorical unity which resembles the world the poet Baudelaire describes in his Corespondence poem : Like extended echoes which mingle far away/ In a mysterious and profound unity / Vast as the night and as ligh/ Perfumes, colors and sounds answer each other.

Here are some of the paintings which I've seen at the exhibition:

Pillow Book