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With this painting I finally solved a problem that I have been trying to figure out since 2010 when I first encountered the work of modern Mexican master, Rufino Tamayo. I am a late comer to the work of Tamayo. Like many artists I am at times unconsciously enmeshed in the bias that tends to view modern art generally within the confines of European and American modernism. This limits one's exposure to artists outside of these paradigms. Additionally, and more importantly I think, is the fact that Tamayo’s use of subtle color in his later works was so sophisticated that, prior to encountering his work in 2010, I was not ready to appreciate its complexity or integrate its potential influence. As I was sitting one morning in my usual ”coffee meditation” pondering this hard won Tamayo inspired success with paint, I thought it was worth creating a blogpost about because it’s an important topic in painting. The topic is tonal painting. Tonal painting, as I practice it, is the predominant use of one color throughout an entire work using only black, white and yellow to create multiple and varied tonal variations of a singular color. Great tonal painting requires the creation of many difficult to achieve contrasting tones in order to create the eye popping visual interest and complexity that is generally created with a broad color palette. Vibrant, varied color generally characterized much my work prior to 2010. Tamayo’s paintings awakened in me a desire to paint in more subtle, tonal color palettes that are less ”sugary” than I was accustomed to. It ultimately inspired me to transcend my reliance on what I had begun to think of as visual ”eye candy”. I had no idea how difficult this would be to achieve or how many years it would take…
Print:Giclee on Fine Art Paper
Size:10 W x 10 H x 0.1 D in
Size with Frame:15.25 W x 15.25 H x 1.2 D in
Frame:White
Ready to Hang:Yes
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Technology has played an important role in the development of my work as an artist. Though I consider myself primarily a painter, I feel that much of my most original and progressive work is in the newly emergent digital medium. I grew up artistically in the heart of a technological hub and this was central to the integration of technology with my art. I do not believe that technology is "the" future of art. I believe that technology, like every innovation in art before it, is an exciting new aspect of modern art and I feel honored to be a part of that. I am also a theorist on the nascent field of contemporary metapsychology.
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