Robert Douglas Genn (May 15, 1936 – May 27, 2014) was a well-known Canadian artist, who has gained recognition for his style, which is in the tradition of Canadian landscape painting.
Objects are held by the backgrounds that are cut into them.
Landscape painting tends to fall under more academic controls. I must say I often like working within these controls. It gives me the feeling that I'm taking part in a noble tradition.
You're right, super-realism is back in style.
Do not be frivolous with the gift of a day. Right now it's all you have. Yesterday is history.
We artists stick ourselves out. This in itself deserves respect.
Pushing yourself to extremes blows out the cobwebs of trusted habit. It shakes up what you know to be reliably safe and substitutes the miracle of insecurity.
Flowers are an education in a vase.
Your easel is the nuclear sun of an uncommon universe.
Art thrives on a difference of opinion. My treasure is your junk, sort of thing. Life would be dull if we all agreed.
A list of your own making is the most powerful list of all. . . The good stuff can be 'love at first sight' - in need of study, courting and claiming. And like a love note, it's nice to have things in writing.
The overly-verbal artist is led by his understanding of things--rather than by direct observation of things as they are.
No matter what your disciplines, you need your own personal lists.
I do know, for most of us, the very best of times are when you're in your own space sweating, trying to squeeze quality out of imperfect capabilities.
Seems those with money who don't worry about money have big walls.
This evening, while signing my name on a painting, I was thinking I might stop signing my cheques.
Previously unseen boo-boos come at you like tattoos on a teenage girl.
The Canadian painter A. Y. Jackson noted that 'failure of sight' was a tiresome problem. He meant we should be able to look at our work-in-progress as if it were previously unseen.
Certain music is terrifically inspirational and it is possible, months or even years afterwards, to look at a painting and remember the music that was playing during its execution.
Regarding ego force, we don't always like people who have it. If you have it, and need to be liked, you ought to consider letting most of it come out the end of your brush.
An opening and a receptiveness to design and pattern for its own sake seems to free the painting hand.