Maybe It's Time to Paint Again

I’ve been reading a book called What Are You Looking At?: 150 Years of Modern Art in the Blink of an Eye, and one particular fact from the book struck me: academism places a strong emphasis on the technical skills, but modernism shifts the focus to ideas and concepts. This really got me thinking.

As a child, I loved painting. I would spend hours immersed in my own little world, completely …