I had the desire to paint the figure without actually painting the figure. - Nathan Oliveira

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Nathan Oliveira

I had the desire to paint the figure without actually painting the figure.

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See the first stroke as a start and everything after that a recovery.

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The gesture must be correct. If the gesture is correct, your mind really creates the reality of the figure, and it is not necessary to hang on all the rest [of the details].

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Though I have considerable interest in Europe and in traveling, I am most content with simply working and allowing the world that I'm creating to unfold before my eyes.

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For me, painting is that magical material, that beautiful stuff that was invented, the ground-up pigments in oil which makes it very malleable. It can be manipulated and changed, darkened, lightened, given different hues and colors, so that by manipulating this material somehow I can find that figure I'm looking for, that figure that represents all the issues I'm bringing up and addressing.

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What I'm concerned about now is creating a metaphor for what the figure really is.

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