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“I am wedded to who I am.”

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Burton Silverman

Burton Silverman is an accomplished artist renowned for his unique painting style and profound thematic expression. His works have had a significant impact on the art world and have been widely acclaimed. more

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“I hope that we can bridge the worlds of appearances and of insights, and thus rescue art from triviality, from 'sensation' alone.”

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“In an era when museum curators were busy introducing the public to photographs of daily life taken by Robert Frank, Henri Cartier-Bresson, and Diane Arbus, why did they simultaneously disdain paintings depicting the same kind of people?”

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“Alas, it is just a single image - an extended moment perhaps. Unlike a biography, a portrait cannot present the many differing moments that make up a personality.”

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“I am stuck with my passion for the objective world, for the constantly shifting shades of meaning to the events of my life, to the states of being of the people I paint, and to the persistent need to get it right.”

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“I love an art which allows me to document my place in this mix... This is my past and my future. It has its own logic and finally, its own sense of fulfillment.”

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