I want people to get lost in the work. I want to seduce people into it and I want people to escape inside the world of the work. In that way the work is pre-Modernist. I throw all of my obsessions and loves into the work, and I try not to be too embarrassed about any of it. I love nature, I love gardening, I love watching birds, and all of that gets into the work. I just try to be true to who I am and make the work I want to see. I don’t have a radical agenda.
—Fred Tomaselli
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22 July 2010 at 11:36 am
Robert Winthrop Chanler « Stilltitled
[…] Robert Winthrop Chanler, muralist and painter. The NYT included a series of full-color photos of his screens in murals in situ at the Rokeby House in the slideshow accompanying the article on the same. The Leopard and the Deer, as well as the mural from the crow room were both included. Chanler is perhaps best known for his piece, The Giraffes, which was completed in 1905 and purchased by the Salon d Automne during his time in Paris. The geometry and intricacy of his work suggests and ancestor to the stripped-down, though vibrant aesthetic of Fred Tomaselli. […]