on banality - volume 1

With realistic principles, Ana Elisa Egreja's paintings seduce and deceived the eye into a familiar illusory game just like a circus magician during a show. In today's art, her meticulous pictorial technique is commonly associated with historical moments of art until the nineteenth century or even considered to be a little tacky, a little nostalgic of painting classes for dilettantes, with a common, banal, almost vulgar taste in the way you taste colors, textures and lights.