Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Roger Somville (Schaerbeek, 13 November 1923) is a modern Belgian painter. He defends realism against modern abstract art, which he believes de-humanize human beings.In his book, Peindre, he denounces "tricks in the shape of art", "empty productions", "triumph of less than nothing", "null simplism", "aesthete bricolage", "conformity of what's never been seen", "submissiveness of the modern art in a globalized market" ...He was a member of the Communist Party, and he wrote "La Creation d'un art public exaltant la vie et le travail des hommes, leurs luttes, leurs souffrances, leurs joies, leurs victoires et leurs espoirs ; art a placer a la portee de tous, la ou passent et vivent les hommes". ("The Creation of a public art praising men's life and work, their fights, their griefs, their joys, their victories, and their hopes; an art made for everybody to carry...