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Guido Molinari

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[Wikipedia] Guido Molinari L.L. D. was a Canadian artist, known nationally and internationally for his serial abstract paintings and their dynamic interplay of colours and focus on modular shapes. His Stripe series is especially celebrated. Molinari himself described their effect - and the effect of all his pai

Quotes by Guido Molinari

You begin by engaging the left hemisphere of the brain with the overall shape, the basic structure of the painting, and then…

Activity

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With monochrome painting... the idiosyncrasy of the work, its difference, its expression, lies in shape.

Differences

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My work is not repetition. It is an exploration.

Exploration

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Just as with the quartet, each part of a painting is telling a different story.

Different

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In a way, the blank canvas... represents the infinity of trying to use color to express emotions - to assign a linguistic…

Blank

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Anything is of course inexhaustible, because at each moment the brain has a different pattern to construct.

Brain

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The question of painting is bound up with epistemology, with the engagement of the viewer, with what the viewer may learn.

Bounds

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I choose color on the spur of the moment. People ask me why I paint in red. I do not have the…

Able

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I'm interested in the movement of the eyes across the painting.

Eye

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Just listening carefully to what the musicians are really doing, putting the music in the right time... I became aware of the…

Art

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Seeing is looking at something in saturation. But we tend to look at something for, say, 1/30 of a second.

Growth

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It's impossible to just localize your perceptions - because the stimuli come from both eyes.

Eye

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