tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41088362505481316832024-03-13T06:37:18.305-07:00Dan McCawMcCaw Contemporaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16235184653819610940noreply@blogger.comBlogger59125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4108836250548131683.post-45733542773709482802016-11-04T09:19:00.001-07:002016-11-04T09:19:17.197-07:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span id="goog_708481645"></span><span id="goog_708481646"></span><br />McCaw Contemporaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16235184653819610940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4108836250548131683.post-27171352631650599902015-09-18T16:31:00.003-07:002015-09-18T16:35:07.414-07:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">There is always a challenge whether to do the safe, familiar and predictable or to search down a path that may lead you to a place that is closer to your true nature... a place that hides locked behind the fear of failure, humiliation and rejection.</span></span>McCaw Contemporaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16235184653819610940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4108836250548131683.post-14677640363606205552015-03-12T22:20:00.003-07:002015-03-12T22:22:03.021-07:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">Do I follow a prescribed path with
a predetermined destination, or do I trust my own s<span style="font-family: inherit;">e</span>n<span style="font-family: inherit;">s</span>e of
direction which may take me longer and in different directions but maybe I will
see and feel things that otherwise I would have missed and because of this
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Much of art and its
appreciation comes from what we have been conditioned to believe art should be.
I try not to limit my appreciation of art only to the marks that define an
object, tell a story or lead me to an intended conclusion. I am drawn to those
things that surprise me, stretch my imagination and allow me the freedom
of my own personal aesthetic interpretation and judgment. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">I try to eliminate
those obstacles and dogmas that restrict my curiosity and limit the value and
appreciation for many different forms of expression. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Art is intended to move
the human spirit, to broaden our perception and to evoke an emotional response
through a visual language. Some languages we understand and some we must
learn. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Abstract Art does not
force me to an intended conclusion but allows me the freedom to change,
exaggerate, experiment and simplify where I am guided only by what feels right.
I am moved by just simple shapes, textures, colors and line that have, in some cases, no
reference to anything recognizable but evoke an emotional response within me.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">I trust my instincts,
intuition and feelings above everything else. I am freed
of trying to copy an object and tethered to all the academic conditions that are part of representational art. It is not my intention to neither
dismiss nor dismantle all those principals that have brought me to this point,
nor the artists that adhere so dearly to those principals. I respect and learn
from anything done well, from photo-realism to abstract or non-objective art.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #666666;"> I have no formula but consider
design and value most important aesthetically to hold a painting together. I break things down into simple shapes, not
concerning myself what the object really is but how it will contribute to an
abstract design. I allow myself the freedom to change, exaggerate, simplify, scrape,
sand, glaze, repaint etc. I tie shapes together forming abstract patterns until
something resonate within myself, I trust feeling, instinct and intuition above
everything else.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #666666;"> I try to eliminate the unnecessary, it is the search for that
indefinable connection that tells you when you have said something close to your own true nature, it is
different for everyone and this, to me, is where the beauty of art lives. Some
will find it in the skill of rendering the subject, some in the ambiguity of an
abstraction. I try not to limit or restrict anything in this search. I try to remain
open, curious, and vulnerable.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"> <span style="color: #666666;">The richest part of painting is when you make that internal
connection, I am constantly searching within myself to find that connection. You will have to
discover it for your self, it is different for everyone.... that what makes art so beautiful.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">In painting everything is relative. color is no
exception.<span> </span>We are just illusionists, if
we want something bright we place something dull or grey next to it. If we want
something straight we place something curved next to it etc. Everything has an
opposite up to down, black to white etc. The degree that we place these
opposites or compliments against each other will determined the dynamics of the
painting.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A painting should tell you as much about the artist as the
subject he or she is painting…. until then, to me, it is just a painting with
varying degrees of skill. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The ultimate aim of painting is not decorative beauty but truth … what is truth? It must not be confused with formal resemblance,indeed formal resemblance only reaches the appearance of things where as the function of truth is to capture their essence. </span></span></div>
<pre><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> SHI TAO</span></span></span></pre>
<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I might add not only the subject’s essence but the artist as
well. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In philosophy, <b>essence</b> is the
attribute or set of attributes that make an entity or substance what it
fundamentally is, and which it has by necessity, and without which it loses its
identity.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Our identity must be part of our own work…. Somehow we must
fight our way in.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> It’s beauty only belongs only to
those who love it. </span></span></div>
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<pre><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #666666;"> </span></span></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #666666;"> The ultimate aim of painting is not decorative beauty but truth … what is truth? It must not be confuse with formal resemblance, indeed formal resemblance </span></span></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #666666;"> only reaches the appearance of things where as the function of truth is to capture their essence. </span></span></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #666666;"> </span></span></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #666666;"> Shi Tao</span></span></span></pre>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #999999;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">It is when I free myself from
trying to be perfect and to meet the expectations of others, and only then, can
I try to create art that is relevant… if<span>
</span>only to me.</span></span></span></span></div>
McCaw Contemporaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16235184653819610940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4108836250548131683.post-45097026372273863952014-01-14T22:17:00.003-08:002014-01-14T22:17:52.012-08:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Within every painting there are those times, those voices, that
beg us to take a chance, to do something different, to risk everything…. how
often do we listen to those voices?</span></div>
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<br />McCaw Contemporaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16235184653819610940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4108836250548131683.post-10389464860010844532013-07-20T13:51:00.001-07:002013-07-20T13:51:16.801-07:00Danny McCaw "The Bather"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #999999;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoPageCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">This is a painting by my youngest son Danny.<br /> <br />
It is easy for the sons or daughters of an artist to be hidden and lost
in the shadow their father casts…. Danny and john are the sunlight that
surround and give life to my shadow, they are my greatest source of
inspiration, they have become my teachers.</span></span></span></span></span>McCaw Contemporaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16235184653819610940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4108836250548131683.post-66765611768759664692013-07-19T16:38:00.000-07:002013-07-19T16:38:13.733-07:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #999999;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Where as traditional realism defines and directs us to a
specific conclusion abstract art can be ambiguous and subjective with symbolic
relationships where the artist creates his own language.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #999999;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Unlike painting forms that we know exist in our conscious
reality the abstract painter relies on the subconscious for direction, this
forces the abstract artist to question and search sometimes blindly for that
right sense of direction. No road map exists to determine the way, he trusts
instinct, feeling and intuition. This vagueness or ambiguity leaves greater
room for interpretation with the meaning of an abstract painting being unique
to each viewer. </span></span></span></div>
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