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Labor

June 4, 2013by galyatarmu 2 Comments

Coincidentally, three pregnant women showed up in my life at the end of the 90’s and I was moved to paint all of them. (Shown is the portrait of an […]

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In the eye of the beholder

May 21, 2013by galyatarmu 1 Comment

All beauty is painful.  When you try to squeeze the beauty of nature into a rectangle, you encounter certain problems. How you deal with those problems is painting. Beauty is […]

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Vision

May 15, 2013by galyatarmu 5 Comments

Ironically, losing my eyesight has brought a new perception – I see the geometry of painting more clearly than ever before.  In the past, it may have been instinctual, but […]

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The end of painting

May 7, 2013by galyatarmu 3 Comments

I read recently about a well-known painter who is currently having a major exhibition in New York and what shocked me about the story were the comments – a number […]

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In the company of friends

April 30, 2013by galyatarmu 1 Comment

I thought of talking about Matisse this week, but my mind went instead to his teacher, the man who really influenced an entire generation – Gustave Moreau. Moreau was a […]

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Painting with intent

April 24, 2013by galyatarmu 2 Comments

There are lots of times when you’re painting that you want to throw in the towel – it’s taking too long, it’s too frustrating, you don’t know what you’re doing. […]

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Winter Wedding

April 16, 2013by galyatarmu 1 Comment

It was Oscar Wilde that said something about each man kills the thing he loves – in that case he was talking about remorse, I think.  But destroying something you’ve […]

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Process

April 9, 2013by galyatarmu 2 Comments

It seems to me that one of the failures of art today is that so many artists need instant gratification.  They are in a big hurry to get to the […]

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Patterns

April 2, 2013by galyatarmu 3 Comments

Last week, I compared this painting to Manet’s  because it is the inverse of his famous ‘Dejeuner sur l’Herbe’ – here, the nude is male while the female is fully […]

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Feminism

March 26, 2013by galyatarmu 2 Comments

I never thought about being a feminist because I never felt discriminated against as an artist. Of course, I never worked in aconventional workplace so I didn’t know how women […]

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