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ANTO PATANIAN
French, lives and works in Los Angeles, California, USA
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A painting hanging on a wall is like a window open to the world, which, landscape for no other reason than its attractive aesthetics, and feel pre-
depending on the artist’s standpoint, affords either a view of the outside disposed towards intimate dialogues with myself and the artwork. The
or a view of the inside. A painting with a view of the outside, mostly when choice of colors and compositions is guided by a willingness to avoid pro-
it is abstract, becomes infallibly a landscape by assimilating its rhythms voking, by a set of connotations of shapes and colors, bursts of images or
and colors. A landscape is a meditation over the visible world. A painting even sensations of landscape in the mind of the receiver of the
with a view of the inside, however, is the product of a mind that meditates message, making the artwork a bare reasoning over the self, and the
upon itself. Such a painting is either introspective or mystical. I sense in artistic experience one of rationality.
myself a strong urge to destroy by all means any wish of cultivating the Anto Patanian
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