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. Twenty years of training in the use of light and shadow techniques enabled him to achieve a beautifully nuanced depth and definition in his compositions. His works represent an interest in the unusual forces of nature that contribute to the visual landscape. From an abstract perspective, these works are of little importance, but in the larger scheme of things, they are a fascinating study of the spontaneous and reflexive properties of matter. Arnolds magnificent surface art comes from a constant search for the uncanny, for the fine balance between state and non-state.His work is driven by a mysterious and elusive but almost intense sensitivity to the subtle differences of color. The light that is injected into his compositions evokes nature in a way that is at once sensuous and solemn, and makes us want to respond to the depth of the pastel hue. In some pieces, a lot of light is being injected into one composition, so that the light is reflected in the depth of the room. In another, a single, focused beam of light seems to be the source of a complex weave of color that has been vibrating off the wall in the corner of the room. This room-filling atmosphere of dense violet and pearly blue really exudes an ethereal sense of neutrality and brightness.Arnolds focus on the subtle differences of color gives the works a remarkable depth, and their distinction from the simple geometric patterns in which they are used is impressive. In his handling of these variations in chromatic value, his precision and mastery of the spatial relationship between colors are so finely wrought that it is difficult to put into words just how important the art-historical significance of the specific works are. The visual experience afforded by the work does not force us to try to grasp what is being depicted, but rather makes us ponder on the intellectual, psychological and social conditions that lead to the most satisfying responses.

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After all, his work is by definition incomplete. Arnold assembles his work in a labyrinthine way, creating a world that is as banal as the result of the very foolishest of human impulses. Not only is it not within the normal course of human affairs, it is beyond.Anders art is almost as complex as the universe itself. He defines nature and the cosmos as a continuum; space and time as an environment in which infinite possibilities exist; a vacuum as a void. He constructs worlds that are never complete, always fading into the background. He creates worlds that are never finished. And his worlds are always finite in number. His worlds are as empty, as transient, as fleeting, as restless as a breath. As timeless, as static, as inert, as void. His worlds are vast and invisible; their density and density are as mysterious as the cosmos itself. A universe that is deep and dense and black, dark and luminous, elusive and tangible is a universe that is fleeting and transient, that is full of the dust of the cosmos. The universe is both eternity and a state of transition. And in this process of construction, the materials of the universe can be used to create a world that is both solid and light, both enduring and fleeting, good and bad, growing and dying, universal and particular. And it is in this mystical or even occult dimension that we see the most beautiful in the cosmos. And it is in this oracular dimension that we can find the most powerful. Arnold is a master of illusion and of space. His works are at once primal and futuristic, ambiguous and mysterious. He can be more precise and more precise than most other contemporary artists, but his intuition is ever present. His work, like the universe, is at once eternal and fleeting, perfect and imperfect.

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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. He is a painter, a photographer, a sculptor, a designer and a painterly engineer, all of whom share a shared ability to make the most out of nature.The Colorado Springs, Colorado, museum of modern art exhibits Arnold in two fascinating body of work. The first of these is a series of large photographs, dated 1960 to 1970, of natural phenomena in the deserts of Colorado. These photographs, known as Blue Angels, were printed on a canvas and hung on the wall in a gridlike arrangement to form a grid of six panels. The painting method in which Arnold worked is the same as that of his mother, Joan Crawford. Each panel represents a different part of the natural world. The painting method is the same as that of the landscape. The grid, like the painting, is a device that enables the artist to trace and coordinate the individual natural phenomena on an infinite scale. The only element that changes from one panel to another is the color. The color of the panels does not change, but rather the shapes and shapes of the painted shapes.The second group of works is comprised of three large photographs of deer in southern California, executed in charcoal and oil on canvas. In each photograph, the deer are either standing or sitting in a certain place, and in some cases the title of each picture does not correspond to the natural setting, but rather it refers to the color of the backdrop. A deer in the desert might be a painted representation of a deer on a tree in the mountains; the paintings title might be Blue Angels. In the second group, the deer are standing in a specific place, but they are not looking at the viewer, but at an imaginary world. The imaginary world is the same as that of nature.The Wyoming Museum of Art displays a large number of Arnold works in its original room, and the artist is shown in one of his most beautiful works.

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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. If Dave Arnold is an artist, hes an artist as far as we are concerned, an artist who takes up what he thinks is necessary in order to put together an idea, for the type of an artist that he is.While it is possible for some of the more highly accomplished artists to be less conventional in style than others, we cannot forget that there are very few artists who make such subtle and precise differences in texture, just as there are few who can so profoundly affect our perceptions of the surface of a thing. Here, for example, is the work of one of the finest examples of this breed of artist. In a highly formal arrangement of parallel lines arranged in a grid patterned from floor to ceiling, Arp, up to forty years of age, presented an extraordinarily subtle and cerebral study of the state of the paintings surface. His paintings are smooth, rich, harmonious surfaces with no indications of any crevices, and thus far the surface of the paintings have been extremely resistant to rippling, deflating, etc. (which has the unfortunate effect of making the painting appear to lose its original significance).A selection of the finest paintings by this prolific artist is shown here. Arp uses sharp acrylic color to express a strong, confident brushstroke. It is not often that he uses high-glossed enamels and highlights as well. This surface is beautiful in itself, but the techniques used to paint it are, for the most part, intricate and delicate. His use of enamels on his paintings is just as much a gift to his art as it is to his audience. Arp brings to his paint the variety of situations his enamels can be used to achieve. In one work, he is making his enamels color some combination of red, yellow, green, blue and black. The enamels give the surfaces a sheen, a gleam and an old-fashioned feel.

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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. Although he has been exhibiting for more than twenty years, he continues to develop his technique and to refine his ideas, at the same time, he continues to be a believer in free association and the possibilities of material. His work has the look of a toy and the finish of a beautiful finishing nail. His latest paintings have been inspired by the pictorial principles of landscape painting but he does not attempt to construct an original picture. The painting is not designed to be judged in any kind of particular way but rather as a whole, for the qualities of the materials which result from his manufacturing are beyond question. Arnold describes his materials as shells, rocks and wood and uses them in a variety of ways. He uses the same pigment and the same matt finish as canvas but he does not over-surface it with a coat of paint. The paint is thin and it is applied with care and skill. The wood is solid and it has a consistency which makes it look natural and naturalistic. His paintings are more like the results of a skilled craft than those of a naive artist.He uses a simple but well-known technique to create a dramatic and beautiful composition of scenes. In the two works shown here, two large wood and canvas paintings, he offers an assortment of features, from a spider-web which dominates the background to a large tree standing in the foreground. The wood is painted black and is made into the shape of a tree trunk. As the tree grows it adds another organic element to the composition. The color of the tree is another important element in the painting. The color is beautiful and richly contrasted, and the paint is very richly applied. The wood is used for all its natural qualities but he has made the painting in the same way. A powerful organic quality lies behind it. His materials are beautiful and versatile, his painting a powerful metaphor for a balanced and all-encompassing world. Arnold paints many different colors and shapes, but he uses simple materials.