Art was born out of the necessity of man, in all times, to try and represent in any support the beauty surrounding him and though he had not created it, he enjoyed it. At the beginning, - and I shall refer mainly to painting and sculpture- , when men found shelter in cavities to defend themselves from the inclemency of weather and their possible enemies, they felt the need to reproduce by means of drawings, paintings or sculptures, all that world surrounding them: nature, animals, deeds or themselves. With the evolution of race came writing which accompanied, in a narrative way, those drawings and reliefs that explained the different stories of the peoples.

Later came the time when paintings or sculptures were attributed a title so that the spectator could know who or what was it that he was contemplating. The title of the work was always consistent with the work of the author; who was later called artist. Art and humankind continue to evolve and we reach the two last centuries, in where it is necessary, for the scholars and their teachings, to clarify (classify) the different trends; and then “isms” were given birth to. Currently there is total freedom in art, everything is valid! I mean, is everything valid? Abstract art appears, and I would like to devote part of my reflections to it in this writing. Many artists, art historians and “merchants” have forgotten that abstraction is a two way ticket; that abstraction is the quest of the essence of art; that abstraction has to start from a reality; that abstraction will reach the artist with his truth; that abstraction is not reached by filling a canvas with lines or colour stains and finishing the work by giving it a title that has nothing to do with what is there represented… and that sometimes we are not capable of deciphering… that… an abstract title. So, we have to carefully think of what is called abstract painting, because it can abstract us in such a way that when we come back from there, we will have not a single hair.

I, as a painter, when I reach abstraction in the search of the same essence of the manifestation of art, I always start from reality and always come back to reality; and in that go and return path, all the paintings that have come along the path have no title.

Jorge Rando, Hamburg, June 2008