Exploring Realism: Lucy Cui on the Divine Beauty in Art

Lucy Cui Courtesy to Bay Area Innovators

“All sorts of different artists, like very traditional artists from history or modern artists nowadays, all have their own sense of beauty to guide [them]. So for me, what is beauty? It’s the divine [that] drives beauty,” said Lucy Cui, an educator and artist with a focus on realism. She says that while the divine drives beauty, beauty drives principles, and principles drive technique.