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At the end of the 19th century, Western painting underwent changes. Due to the emergence of photographic technology, the realism tradition which attempted to reproduce the three-dimensional real world in flat space was slowly being abandoned by painters; in the 20th century, expressionism and surrealism. Abstract painting styles such as Cubism and Cubism flourished between them, Picasso and Dali from Spain being the most famous names in the world. But this abstract trend also reacted in the 20th century. Some painters returned to the figurative tradition and repainted realistic works, including Antonio Lopez. Anyone asked Lopez what the meaning of the realistic painting that is now seen everywhere in photos, films and television? The answer is: "People always need to know what others see through their own eyes.
"Dream of Light" is also a very "figurative" work. Dated subtitles divide the film into segments, such as a documentary film-making camera stationed in Lopez's house, quietly watching his creative process, and Conversations with visiting friends and the daily activities of family members and decorators are a bit like watching Lopez's landscape painting on the streets of Madrid. . His paintings make one feel that there is still time compressed under a still image, and "Dream of Light" reproduces the compressed process of time. The painter who wrote himself and acted alone asked the visiting Chinese woman to ask: "Most people paint with photos." The implication is: "Why do you paint with real objects?" The artist's answer is “Intimacy. "
This film is more or less a self-portrait of a painter, he uses a camera to make everyone see his daily work, how to paint, and sometimes modeling for his wife, painting and painting over and over again. In fact, the artist's wife and children have appeared in films, and they are all the subjects of his past works. But what is more interesting about this visual comparison lies in the dialogue between him and his wife and friends: this painting is hopeless and must be let go; the portrait must be taken out and painted; hands have to be like this, feet like this, be a model When I was a kid, I had to take this picture and so on. The painters are wrestling behind the canvas, one by one the abandoned work, the creation process that seems long and trivial, but behind it is an undercurrent wave. This calm film is like a landscape painting of the protagonist, under the surface of a landscape that seems to be everyday, there is a psychological activity that is rich and difficult to understand. This is a self-portrait of creation.