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My interest in primitive art began about 1965.
I decided that art school was not for me: in art school
I would not have been able to continue my preoccupation
with this kind of art, which turned out to be
my only preference.
But I remember Cezanne with a warm glow,
especially his still life paintings. He was not a naive painter, but the shallow depth of space he worked in is
very satisfying to someone who likes lines and flatness.
One day about a year after I began painting
 in the early 1960s
I saw an art print from Eastern Europe in a magazine.
It was a rooster on a window sill, painted in a simple way.
It was a refreshing scene and I was fascinated.
and it apparently was what I had been looking for.
It was a kind of permission to go my own way.


My feeling about art
and beginning a new painting is always that
at this moment,
there are endless possibilities.

Arv's Grocery 2010 16 x 20" acrylic on canvas

  

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