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The art of Joseph Wood derived from what the artist calls "a visually rich childhood":
"I had access to old, yet very informative books that others my age probably never saw. I also spent alot of time traveling to places that I had a strange curiousity for. I would keep vivid
recollections in my head of these early people and places that I saw, and it gave me an archive from which to work from for
an eternity. Then when I learned to read, I became so fascinated with books, I would render drawings from the
pictures out of the books in pencil. This taught me how to draw what I see.
Later on, I received the normal art courses, and built an early yet primative foundation in art.In
my early teens, I stopped drawing altogether. I spent 5 years not doing anything related to art, but in
my head--I was still designing, still cataloguing the images that I saw and couldn't forget.
In 1997, I started taking formal art courses in college. The most valuable part of the
experience was the access to the school library, which had an overwhelmingly diverse art section. Here, I consumed the
masters, the romantacists, the impressionists, and found the work of Vincent Van Gogh. His innate gifts and compassionate
subject matter impressed me deeply, and so I spent an entire year dissecting his work. I then came face to face
with Kandinsky, Picasso, and Pollock. It was in the midst of this euphoria when I stumbled upon the regionalist painter
Thomas Hart Benton--a teacher at the Kansas City Art Institute of a young Jackson Pollock. Benton, along with Van
Gogh, became the single most important influence on my goals as an artist. It was in their rythm, color harmony, and
subject matter that I discovered why I too was an artist."
If you would like to see the paintings of Joseph Wood, please click on the painting above.
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