HOWARD ORANSKY



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"The brush stroke at the moment of contact carries inevitably the exact state of being of the artist at that exact moment into the work. There it is, to be seen and read by those who can read such signs, and to be read later by the artist, perhaps with some surprise, as a revelation of oneself."

The American Realist painter Robert Henri shared those words and that idea with his students in the early twentieth century. Reading those words inspired me as an art student at the age of nineteen, and thirty-five years later, they still inspire.

That handful of words sums up for me the mystery of art and the mystery of painting.  It is the dialogue of the artist engaged in a process of communication and exploration that is both simple and complicated. When the process works it speaks very plainly to the artist and to others “who can read such signs.”

I believe now that there is wisdom to be found in painting, in the endless ocean of possibilities, and in the time that passes while the painting changes in the studio.