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A daily newsletter featuring today’s finest visual artists. Today's Newsletter is Brought to You by FASO.FASO Loves Carla Paine’s oil paintings! See More of Carla Paine’s art by clicking here. Wouldn’t You Love to work with a website hosting company that actually promotes their artists?As you can see, at FASO, we actually do, and, Click the button below to start working Get Started with FASO for Free BoldBrush Recommends: R Dugger HoustonGet Notified When R Dugger Posts New Art BiographyIn my work, Beauty is the central focus and objective. Beauty in art over the last century has moved from a supreme ideal, to become oddly a trite and even offensive concept. A notion that art could only be valuable and important if it was focused on social or political ideas and concerns took hold and the word Beauty was re-cast to mean decoration in the most pejorative sense. I do not believe that I hold special knowledge or power to see Beauty where others do not. Rather, my role is to be a catalyst and to encourage others to reawaken this power within themselves. My work provides an opportunity for the viewer to enjoy Beauty in multiple layers mystically - meaning directly and without need for an 'interpreter'. While a focus on concept is a powerful role that art can play, the abandonment of Beauty is a tragedy for art and society at large. Without artists to lead the charge for Beauty, our entire culture has lost sight of how Beauty can be wrapped into all aspects of our daily lives. My painting focuses on color and space. I have been heavily influenced by the art and style of the Nabis, specifically Edouard Vuillard. While painting representational images of figures and scenes, they saw their work less as depiction and more as the exterior display of metaphor and symbols native to themselves as artists. Their work, like my own, was a tool in the search for Beauty. I grew up in a family of artists: my mother and father were both painters and photographers. Our house was filled with art and music, and ever changing as we moved about every three years during my school years. I received my BFA from the Minneapolis College of Art & Design and my MFA from the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. I have lived all over the US and in Italy, and currently reside in Placitas, New Mexico, a small village in the foothills of the Sandia Mountains between Albuquerque and Santa Fe. Learn More About R Dugger Houston Creating Art is about Creating Magic. New Artwork by FASO Members Your art could be here tomorrow, for free.
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