Tony Ryder
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Featured Artist:
Tony Ryder
About the Artist
“Why do people dance and sing? Why do children love to draw? I believe that creativity is instinctual and that we all have a fundamental urge to blossom joyfully.”
My work is centered on the process of painting and drawing from life with the essential elements being the model and the light. I’m attracted to the figure because to me it is the primary embodiment of the painter’s ideal. I express light in my work after the manner of Leonardo, Vermeer and Monet. Color is an aspect of light and it is important to study the action of light carefully. The great masters, especially Michelangelo, had a sublime sense of form. Study the masters and learn to draw very well.
My teacher, a true master painter, is Ted Seth Jacobs. In studying with Ted, I felt his teaching method should be perpetuated. Teaching challenges me to be clear and articulate. I teach so that I can afford to paint, and I paint so that I can teach un-hypocritically.
My advice to beginning artists is “To thine own self be true”. Self-expression should never be selfish-expression. Artists have an obligation to provide society with beauty. Realism can be about the good, the beautiful, the true, without being trite. NATURE is infinitely perfect and beautiful. Look at a leaf or a galaxy. Realism, in that it is based on the imitation of nature, is a hymn of love to the beauty of creation.
Website: www.theryderstudio.com
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