<\/noscript><\/strong><\/p>\n4.\u00a0 Do you remember the first piece of art that captured your imagination? <\/strong>The first work that fascinated me is the portrait of Dora Maar by Pablo Picasso 1937.<\/p>\n5. Is there any reality behind the characters in your paintings or are they purely fantasy?<\/strong> A very personal question! But I would say that theme is a clever mix of fiction and reality.<\/p>\n6. What do you dream about? <\/strong>I dream of devoting myself totally to painting. and visiting Cuba.<\/p>\n7. How do you define success?<\/strong> Success is not important to me. I prefer to meet other artists, far from the clich\u00e9s and ideals imposed on us by today's hyper consumer society.<\/p>\n8. Your work reminds me of Basquiat, is he a big influence for you?<\/strong> Basquiat is one of my great inspiration, he painted using pastels, like me. I have learned a lot from his work. He had a very particular way of arousing and questioning people through his paintings.<\/p>\n9. What other types of art interest you?<\/strong> I enjoy sculpting, literature, music.<\/p>\n10. How would you like to be seen as an artist years from now?<\/strong> I would like to see people appreciating my work.<\/p>\n11. If you could have dinner with 3 artists living\/dead who would be at your table?<\/strong> Frida Kahlo, Basquiat and Picasso also in the living artist category Baskyn, Joseph Sevenson, and Jacmel.<\/p>\n12. Name three things you can\u2019t live without in your studio?<\/strong> Family, music, and books.<\/p>\n13. Anything else you'd like to mention that I didn't ask?<\/strong> I come from the Caribbean islands. I like jazz especially Miles Davis.\u00a0 I love lions, wildlife and water. Also I love to dance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":6631,"template":"","categories":[14],"class_list":["post-9722","artists","type-artists","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-painter"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jimon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artists\/9722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jimon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artists"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jimon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/artists"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jimon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jimon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jimon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}