Tag: Gage Taylor
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Craquelure: History’s Crack In Time
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Time and climate are not our friends when it comes to paintings or our skin. Craquelure is the network of fine cracks that appear in the skin of a painting. Many things can cause these cracks. Sadly, much like the human face, cracks occurring in the paint layers or ground are usually indicative of age…
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Art Critics: Keeping Art In Its Proper Framework
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Art critics evaluate art in a historical context. They see the big, overall picture of what is going on in a culture during the specific time it is created. The most successful art is a reflection of the zeitgeist of its creator. It is the art critic that is able to spot a movement. An example…
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Gage Taylor, California Visionary Artist and My Art Master from a World before the Internet
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Tropical Dream has been part of my private art collection for over two decades. I apprenticed as a painter with Gage Taylor for 4 years, served as an USIA Art Ambassador with him for the US State Department, and we collaborated professionally on canvas for many years under the signature Taylor Dana. In his lifetime,…
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The Mystical Symbolism in a Gage Taylor And Uriél Dana Oil Painting
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© Uriél Dana 2017. Gage Taylor and I rarely painted large oils. Hindsight is one of the three largest. Painted on multiple sanded coats of gesso on a surface as smooth as skin and in layers of oil glazes that create a multidimensional depth. This painting embodies every universal archetype from the East, the West,…
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A 1998 Interview On The Collaborative Art of Gage Taylor & Uriel Dana
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AN INTERVIEW WITH VISIONARY ARTISTS:GAGE TAYLOR & URIEL DANAby Jon Keeyes Since 1984, Visionary Artists Gage Taylor and Uriel Dana have been delivering a spiritual message to people around the world. Using vivid landscapes, mystical imagery and detailed colors, these two masters have crafted some of the most entrancing art the world has seen. One…
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A 1998 Interview Between Uriél Dana and Gage Taylor
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In 1998 I asked Gage Taylor to write something for the Art America website. Websites were still new for artists at that time. I am sharing this highly intimate interview once again as many issues are relevant now. Ten years before we met I was living and working in Germany, attached to Engineering and Programs with…