Caio Fonseca Born 1959 Website http://www.caiofonseca.com/ Caio Fonseca (born 1959) is an American painter. Read full biography of Caio Fonseca →
My forms are not abstractions of things in the real world. They're also not symbols. I would say that my job is to invent these forms and to put... →
I'm not particularly interested in painting, per se. I'm interested in a painting that has that mysterious life to it. Anything that... →
If you come every day or every month to my studio, you won't see that much change, but if you come once a year, you'll see big new categories... →
All my siblings became artists. One's a novelist, my brother is a painter, my sister was a costume designer.
I'm not such an artist type that I can't handle the real world. I read the financial pages, because most people don't talk about art.
It's not until the very last phase that you know how good the works are going to be.
Most days, I practice piano in the mornings and I spend the rest of the day painting.
My 20s were spent in a room, alone, mixing paints and figuring it all out.
Painting is something that requires a lot of time - it's not just one good idea out of art school.
So many paintings have hidden meanings or need wall texts, but my work is not in that category.
The world of painting has nothing to do with the art world.
I think I was very lucky to have grown up with an artist's studio in the house. It was a kind of life that was possible. Yeah, it made it kind of... →
I've been playing piano my whole life, but I'd never tried to understand how compositions are made, really. Try to imagine if you'd loved... →
Caio Fonseca Born 1959 Website http://www.caiofonseca.com/ Caio Fonseca (born 1959) is an American painter.