Perhaps the most naturally gifted visual artist of his generation, Dave Arnold demonstrates a stunningly innate sense of lighting, colour, balance and shape. The talent he possesses cannot be learned or taught; it is a rare and breathtaking gift from a merciful creator.

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Perhaps the most naturally gifted visual artist of his generation, Dave Arnold demonstrates a stunningly innate sense of lighting, colour, balance and shape. The talent he possesses cannot be learned or taught; it is a rare and breathtaking gift from a merciful creator. ____________________ Mike DeGoletto is a long-time resident of the St. Louis area. His work is produced in a lush, vibrant and hyperbolic palette that reaches dizzying heights of cadmium orange and aqua-blue. His colors are based on a combination of extreme painterly, coloristic, and visual relations; they are of the highest order and harmonious, without any hint of fault. Each painting is composed of a broad arrangement of geometric shapes. The objects in these paintings are often as large as those in the picture, with a huge horizontal line taking up one side and a parallel vertical band stretching from the other side. A large triangular rectangle cuts across the middle of the picture, and an even larger square cuts across the middle of the picture. From a distance, these triangular shapes appear to be complex, overpainted patterns, while from closer up, they appear to be masses of brownish pigment. The shading and color use in these canvases is spotlit or convexed color, thereby creating a sense of depth and more space. The surfaces are exposed, too; the paints are drawn with a soft, shiny medium. The colors are often used in conjunction with monochromatic and multi-color bands, while the overall design is central to the painting. These forms range from beige, mahogany, or clear to red or white. The metallic hues in these pictures are reminiscent of French monochrome painting, but in a more polished, controlled way. These paintings are of high quality and dazzlingly beautiful.From the beginning, Arp made a very personal and distinctive style that is tied to his personal history and upbringing. In his work Arp is best known for his Pop paintings of the 60s. These were paintings of pixilated inner surfaces in black or clear. The colors were often saturated, although there was a tendency to use a consistent hue.

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Dave Arp is no stranger to the medium, but he is somehow more talented than most others who have exhibited it. The technical prowess of his work has been the source of his fascination for more than twenty years. Without exception, he was involved in the innovations of color, shape and light that had begun to define a new age of painting. Without a doubt, the greatest of his generation of visionaries, Arp was a great artist for his time. His art does not require invention; rather, it is advanced in its time. This vision that Arp was so important in will be our lifetime.

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Why, then, shouldnt painting be a vessel of the most natural gift—the deep personal experience of the artist? The painting is a container of personal experience, a fruit of a creative dream.

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Perhaps the most naturally gifted visual artist of his generation, Dave Arnold demonstrates a stunningly innate sense of lighting, colour, balance and shape. The talent he possesses cannot be learned or taught; it is a rare and breathtaking gift from a merciful creator. His work is a complex blend of color and form, hard and soft, deep and shallow, dark and bright, clear and opaque. The canvas is an array of planes which arc often made of metal plates or are covered with a pigmented ink. Arnold leaves no doubt that the focus of his vision is painting; he creates a fully satisfying surface and then paints in a deceptively smooth, illusory way. His color is bright, rich and precise. His subjects are often comical, yet no less mysterious and surprising. This work has no doubt been the most difficult, and the most interesting, of the recent New York Metropolitan Paintings.Oscar Taza paints soft and delicate, low and high, family and single figures, almost portraits, often working from very basic images and colors. He is a visual treat for children, and a good painter for the elderly. His use of harsh and sometimes sharp colors, and the use of illusory depth, makes him a clever painter, yet his surface is always finished. His coloring is rich, sometimes comical, yet always pure. His vivid, expressive brushstrokes, and his complex technique make his work a rich and expressive palette for children and adults.His techniques are those of an illustrator and colorist, yet there is no sign of craftsmanship in his use of paint, brushes, and use of shapes. He doesnt depict the human condition, but rather does it with a clear, clear point of view. Even his muted color is perfectly drawn, giving the impression that he doesnt just paint it in, he has painted it. It is in the way the paint is applied that the reason for painting is so richly felt. His paintings are self-contained, sophisticated, and elusive. All his paint is shaped by his own imagination and his own personality; he doesnt seem to play on the same level with his subjects.

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Perhaps the most naturally gifted visual artist of his generation, Dave Arnold demonstrates a stunningly innate sense of lighting, colour, balance and shape. The talent he possesses cannot be learned or taught; it is a rare and breathtaking gift from a merciful creator. The early photographs of this talented and visionary artist are exhibited here in a variety of styles. Arnold was a great draftsman and printer, a brilliant craftsman and a brilliant painter who loved form and colour. The originals he has produced are magnificent in their elegance, from the richly detailed Carpenters Bend, Idaho, and Widowsboro, Minnesota, and Kansas City, Missouri, watercolors.His most outstanding contributions to American art are his large canvases. These canvases are angular, explosive and aggressively allegorical in the extreme. The compositions are richly detailed and are characterized by an intense, resonant color and a rich, muted, metallic atmosphere.The painting is highly complex. The painting is the product of many generations of painters, many diverse ideas and many styles. The painters cross-pollinate, experiment, and invent new ideas and styles to expand the work into new and richly rewarding areas. The intensity of the colors, the subtle tonal range, and the dark, almost lifeless, blue, yellow and black areas of the canvas create a new sensuality. The medium gives the painter great freedom and control over the paint. The process of application, the way in which the paint is applied, the way the color is applied, and the way in which the painting is displayed make the painting look most refined and refined in the extreme. A strong sense of craftsmanship and absolute trust in the medium allow the painter to go deep and to carry his work to the edges of realism, which is his true strength.The first paintings in this show were made between 1948 and 1951. They are rich in visual interest and richly detailed. A number of them are blue, and some of the broad and intense colors are blues, but a number of the blue paintings have a silvery and muted, almost monochromatic color. In contrast, the color range in the flat black areas is all black except for a few instances of purple.