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| First Name | Ira |
| Last Name | Barkoff |
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Looking at a blank canvas can be both exciting and frightening at the same time. Most of the time exciting wins out and I plunge in. That is, I paint the landscape, which for me is what it is all about. The landscape represents nature and contemplating nature is being in touch with God. You could cast me as a modern-day Luminist-Tonalist-Impressionist. Monets Water Lilies have been a big influence, along with the landscape painter Wolf Kahn.
The landscape means either what I see before me or from my mind s eye. When I paint a mountain or a tree, Im not trying to capture the mountain or tree literally (that is what a photograph does). I am trying to express my inner spirit in the painting to transcend the physical to reach the spiritual.
My most successful pictures are not those that are the most accurate in terms of nature, but are the ones where the state of my consciousness allowed me to translate my feelings my deepest inner feelings to the canvas. When I get into this altered state, iit is just a fantastic feeling. I think most artists paint in order to get into this altered state. I know I do. Hopefully, what comes out is a perceptual poem. |
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