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Nathan Oliveira

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[Wikipedia] Nathan Oliveira was an American painter, printmaker, and sculptor, born in Oakland, California to immigrant Portuguese parents. Since the late 1950s, Oliveira has been the subject of nearly one hundred solo exhibitions, in addition to having been included in hundreds of group exhibitions in importan

Quotes by Nathan Oliveira

I am not the avant-garde. I am the artist who comes after the advancing guard. I am more concerned with continuity of…

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Advancing

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If a figure doesn't look back at you, you forget it.

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Figures

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For me, painting is that magical material, that beautiful stuff that was invented, the ground-up pigments in oil which makes it very…

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Beautiful

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See the first stroke as a start and everything after that a recovery.

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Firsts

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The gesture must be correct. If the gesture is correct, your mind really creates the reality of the figure, and it is…

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Details

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I had the desire to paint the figure without actually painting the figure.

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Desire

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What I'm concerned about now is creating a metaphor for what the figure really is.

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Concerned

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Though I have considerable interest in Europe and in traveling, I am most content with simply working and allowing the world that…

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Allowing

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