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Artist Statement:
Paula D Glaser
I remember looking
through my children's
adventure books and the family
bible and being very impressed
by the pictures and paintings
that illustrated the story and
the religious text. the
illustrations in the stories,
most of them by Wyeth as I
learned later, and the old
master paintings were
treasures that it didn't seem
possible to recreate.
They were their own existence
and my first inspiration,
though not the last.
I admire not only the
illustrations of Wyeth and the
classic painters but the use
of color and light by the
early impressionists and the
work done in the early years
of the 20th century by the
Hudson River painters,
particularly the latter, Their
use of light and color make
the the flat world of the
canvas show great depth. They
seem to shimmer with light and
color as if they were living
worlds. There is a realism
that is beyond reality in
these paintings.
I started drawing with
graphite on paper and
progressed first to charcoal
and then to ink. From drawing
I moved on to painting. My
paintings are done on gessoed
cardboard or paper with a few
on canvas board. I used ...
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