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Shane Guffogg, Strathmore Summer, oil on canvas board, 16 x 20”, 1982 — Shane Guffogg, *Strathmore Summer*, oil on canvas board, 16 x 20”, 1982

SHANE GUFFOGG: COLOR Part 2

September 29, 2019 in essays

(Conversation between , Victoria Chapman and Los Angeles based artist, Shane Guffogg continues)

It's hard to believe before the 1800's artists were for the most part using color as an intrinsic property of an object. During the French Impressionist era, this changed, as artists began to use color and light to investigate emotion. Claude Monet's paintings of haystacks are a good example of this. Being present in the flutter of the modern world, it's unimaginable to think that what see today has not always been, but rather, it evolved with the passage of discovery.

(Detail), Shane Guffogg, Sapere Aude #7, oil on canvas, 2018 — (Detail), Shane Guffogg, *Sapere Aude #7,* oil on canvas, 2018

SHANE GUFFOGG: COLOR - Conversations about color and how it has influenced the artist's work

August 23, 2019

(Follow me as I research the origins of color and discover how it has inspired the work of Los Angeles based artist Shane Guffogg) - Victoria Chapman

About six months ago I listened to a podcast about color and it really got me thinking about the history of art and Guffogg’s paintings. Working amongst them in the studio, I started to contemplate how the artist uses color to create his visual poetry. The subject of color in art is vast. I began to research it from the beginning and the parts I became particularly interested in, I wrote notes about, and proposed questions to the artist.