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This artist has continually brought a vitality and intelligent consideration to abstract painting that easily qualifies him as a modern master of the medium. This statement encompasses far more then his marvelous paintings to include his writings and interest in philosophy; particularly as embodied by Nietzsche, Martin Heidegger and Maurice Merleau-Ponty. Ruda�s paintings, along with his approach to them, embody many of the concepts and ideas presented by these luminaries. But while all this is readily present, the paintings become a |
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Q-99 1999, oil on canvas, 36 x 30 in. |
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G-99 1999, oil on canvas, 40 x 46 in. |
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great deal more. Look at this work and there you see, with your own eyes, an other worldliness; the real perceptual experience of what philosophy can only suggest. |
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This current work is a major departure from previous paintings, which were far livelier in terms of color, paint handling and forms. That sensibility was an urban one the cacophony and visual noise of a large city (New York) and an honest response to it. Though of course that is only one interpretation. Even so, there was also a presence of calm in the old work, a curious quietude. The new paintings pick up on this aspect to create a very different sense of place. Yet they present possibilities for interpretation that are wide open and able to occur simultaneously. Such painting only happens in the hands of someone with Ruda�s range of expertise and experience. |
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