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It is very interesting that you relate to this so well, William. I think that work like Samuelson's focuses on the possibilities of paint to create a visceral sense of flesh and solid form. One might initially think that he was eschewing traditional ideas of painting, but essentially he has the same goal in mind as da Vinci, Rembrandt, Degas and others throughout art history, and painters like you today - that is to to achieve that thrill of realism which is more than an illustration of visual reality, but to express those more abstract ideas of life and corporeality, and also the artist's own response to encountering physical objects in space i.e. touch, attraction, love, repulsion etc.
Traditional painting in its search for the expression of these things still has infinite possibilities and will continue to be the true mainstream of art whilst human-kind continues to exist.
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