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George Rhys Artist

​I Paint Wrong

1/1/2018

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I like to quip, “I paint wrong,” but I am disappointed by the response I get, which is often something along the lines of, “You just need to paint more.”

That may be true. I will never have painted enough. But insufficient time spent painting is not why I say I paint wrong.
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Big White House in the Woods, Acrylic 18 x 24. I said, "I'm done." Vie said, "You're not done!" I said, "Yes I am. This feels more like me than I have painted in a long time."
I paint wrong because I do not paint to try to please the casual purveyor of art galleries, or tourists, or locals, or judges or the people who say I need to paint more. I should add that I hate it when I all too often fall into trying to paint right.

There are a lot of boring paintings out there that are painted right.

But there are paintings out there that just excite the bejesus out of me. I cannot overstate my overwhelming resonance with those paintings, most of which are in museums and some of which show up in art magazines and online. At those times I wish there was someone next to me to whom I could express my exhilaration. You see, those guys painted wrong, too.
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I feel a great kinship with those guys, though I know I do not yet have the courage to paint as wrong as they did.
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Evelyn Ashley
3/16/2018 12:43:05 pm

I know what you mean. I am in an atelier and when the "teacher" says you should use this or that color or draw before you paint I should not listen. I paint wrong, too but maybe not wrong enough yet. When I don't care what people think I might be wrong enough.

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