Everyone accepts the abstraction of Bach. My work aspires to the same kind of abstraction, which is so engaging that you're distracted from asking about what it means. So many paintings have hidden meanings or need wall texts, but my work is not in that category. Once it's in the viewer's eyes my job will be judged on whether or not it is engaging and pulls you in to a kind of intelligence or poetic something going on there that makes it sustainable to look at.
My forms are not abstractions of things in the real world. They're also not symbols. I would say that my job is to invent these forms and to put them… - Caio Fonseca
My forms are not abstractions of things in the real world. They're also not symbols. I would say that my job is to invent these forms and to put them…
- Caio Fonseca
I try not to bring in anything I don't love looking at. It's about restaint ... There is something about an unfinished quality that leaves within you… - Caio Fonseca
I try not to bring in anything I don't love looking at. It's about restaint ... There is something about an unfinished quality that leaves within you…
I think I was very lucky to have grown up with an artist's studio in the house. It was a kind of life that was possible. Yeah, it made it kind of har… - Caio Fonseca
I think I was very lucky to have grown up with an artist's studio in the house. It was a kind of life that was possible. Yeah, it made it kind of har…
Everyone accepts the abstraction of Bach. My work aspires to the same kind of abstraction, which is so engaging that you're distracted from asking ab… - Caio Fonseca
Everyone accepts the abstraction of Bach. My work aspires to the same kind of abstraction, which is so engaging that you're distracted from asking ab…
Painting is something that requires a lot of time - it's not just one good idea out of art school. - Caio Fonseca
Painting is something that requires a lot of time - it's not just one good idea out of art school.
My uniform is sweatpants, so crusted over with dried paint that they're as hard as a table. I wear T-shirts that are also covered in paint, and Crocs. - Caio Fonseca
My uniform is sweatpants, so crusted over with dried paint that they're as hard as a table. I wear T-shirts that are also covered in paint, and Crocs.
Most people draw from the mind, not the eye. They draw the idea of a table or a face, not what's in front of them. We don't actually see the line of … - Caio Fonseca
Most people draw from the mind, not the eye. They draw the idea of a table or a face, not what's in front of them. We don't actually see the line of …
I'm not such an artist type that I can't handle the real world. I read the financial pages, because most people don't talk about art. - Caio Fonseca
I'm not such an artist type that I can't handle the real world. I read the financial pages, because most people don't talk about art.
So many paintings have hidden meanings or need wall texts, but my work is not in that category. - Caio Fonseca
So many paintings have hidden meanings or need wall texts, but my work is not in that category.
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