REAL art is real. Even if not figurative, it is an authentic depiction of what the artist saw or experienced. Here is Lucy Boydell describing the moment she met her stag: “He walked across the grass and I turned to watch him; he was coming across the clearing and he had his little harem of hinds around him. They broke, and he walked on through and came prancing past. Then he turned and looked at me, eye to eye, and his eyes were blue.
