Saul Balagura | #A3 | Painter

I have chosen to describe my art as "Symbolic Expressionism."  I chose this term in 1958, and it has served its purpose.  Our perceptions are transformed by the brain into other formats.  When we evoke them, they are reconverted into icons or symbols that are greatly influenced and transformed by factors such as experience, emotions, the environment, intellectualization, the overall brain state, etc. When the artist expresses a given image on the canvas allowing the interplay of these icons with the emotions one wants to convey, and tempers the interaction as it develops with a sense of aesthetics, one has in fact created an art form that fits quite appropriately under the term symbolic expressionism.  And this I do.