"Blue Lagoon" by Walter Salas-Humara
artist: WALTER SALAS-HUMARA
BLUE LAGOON
40" x 30" Acrylic on canvas, 41" x 31" frame
"[He] asked...if there was a heaven for horses, but he [old man] shook his head and said that a horse had no need of heaven."
– Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses
ARTIST STATEMENT
“Painting is a peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again. I do not literally paint the horse, but the emotion it produces upon me. I focus on movement, texture and light. My goal is to recapture the mysterious by discovering the internal and external world anew. My renderings focus on emotive effect, rather than manifesting a sense of true physical space. I look at a horse and I see shape, color and tone. Then I find those that will make the work alive and vibrate. I have neither rules nor method. I look to art for a direct experience. I revel in the drag, the smear, the splash and flow of liquid color, in the physicality of the strokes. The shapes and hues assert themselves and interact with one another, as if in conversation. What I am seeking is not the real and not the unreal but rather the unconscious and the instinctive. I start a picture and I finish it. I don’t think about art while I work. I think about life.”
— Walter Salas-Humara
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