“One of the most important elements of Caio-ness I wanted to keep was that left to right reading, where one form draws you... this movement in what is otherwise a fairly still art, that sense of pulling the eye. It involves a sense of time. To me that's esoteric and magical and playful, and if a painting doesn't have that, to me it's just canvas and paint. If it does have that, then it rises above its materials.” ArtImportantEyeReadingPaintingPaintCanvasRise AboveRise Above It Author:Caio Fonseca
“Everyone accepts the abstraction of Bach. My work aspires to the same kind of abstraction, which is so engaging that you're distracted from asking about what it means. So many paintings have hidden meanings or need wall texts, but my work is not in that category. Once it's in the viewer's eyes my job will be judged on whether or not it is engaging and pulls you in to a kind of intelligence or poetic something going on there that makes it sustainable to look at.” KindMeanEyeAcceptingPaintingWallPoeticJudgedDistractedHidden Meaning Author:Caio Fonseca
“Most people draw from the mind, not the eye. They draw the idea of a table or a face, not what's in front of them. We don't actually see the line of the jaw as a line and we don't see an eye as a perfectly outlined almond shape.” PeopleMindIdeasEyeFacesLinesFrontsShapesDrawsTablesAlmonds Author:Caio Fonseca
