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Henry Samelson: Interview

By Brett Baker, 867 contributed posts
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About the author: Brett Baker is a painter and the editor of painters-table.com, a magazine of the painting blogosphere. Painters' Table highlights the best new painting content from across the web as it is published and provides a platform for exploring blogs that focus primarily on the subject of painting. Brett is a nationally exhibited artist. His work has won awards including a Guggenheim fellowship in painting. He received an M.F.A. in Painting from Boston University and is represented by Simon Gallery, NJ. Brett has graciously allowed us to share the articles from his very popular blog with you here at Art Matters! The posts you see here are also published at Huffington Post Arts.

Valerie Brennan interviews painter Henry Samelson about his work and process.

Samelson notes: "Drawing is important to my painting. But there is reciprocity between them with ideas/influence flowing back and forth. I work on a lot of paintings at the same time with dialogue between them as well. Everything plays off of everything else… Departures happen as a result of accident, frustration, ineptitude, and the difficulty of translating the muscle movements involved in drawing into the act of painting… I always reach a point of anger and disgust in a work which I think is an essential part of my process."

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April 5th, 2012 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Art Forms, Contributed Posts, from The Painter's Table, Inspiration, Painting

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