William Whitaker
A Letter to Alessandra
사랑
우정이라 하기에는 너무 오래고
사랑이라 하기에는 너무 이릅니다.
당신을 사랑하지 않습니다.
다만
좋아한다고 생각해 보았습니다.
남남이란 단어가 맴돌곤 합니다.
어처구니 없이
난 아직 당신을 사랑하고 있지는 않지만
당신을 좋아한다고는 하겠습니다.
외롭기 때문에 사랑하는 것이 아닙니다.
사랑하기 때문에 외로운 것입니다.
누구나 사랑할 때면
고독이 말없이 다가옵니다.
당신은 아십니까..
사랑할수록 더욱 외로와진다는 것을
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.
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이 해인
Monarch
High Brasil
High Brasil[detail]
Skin
Island Pathway
Island Pathway [detail]
Island Pathway [detail]
Island Pathway [detail]
Canyon Dance
The Letter
Magic Carpet
Magic Carpet [detail]
Mandolin Dancer
Flight of Fancy
Stone Turtle
Memory
Member of the Company
Member of the Company [detail]
Talisman
Nederlandse
Nut Brown and Green
Paranymph
Pathway
Portuguese Flying Carpet
Cue
Primary Trio [detail]
Primary Trio [detail]
Primary Trio [detail]
Rebecca's Place in Time
The Roses of Santa Fe
A Season's Dance
A Game of Spoons
A Game of Spoons[detail]
Steamer Trunk
Tabled Roses
The Actress
The Actress [detail]
The Open Window
The Secret
Treasure
Trio
Trio[detail]
Two Women
Viking's Daughter
The West Window
The West Window [detail]
Into the Woods
Into the Woods[detail]
Young Woman
Country Quilt
Dancer
Dancer[detail]
The Flower Basket
Fresh Air
Hollyhocks
The Next Day
The Next Day [detail]
The Next Day [detail]
The Next Day [detail]
Petunias
Santa Fe Garden Corner
Spring Gift
Teapot
White Roses and Three Apricots
Bachianas Brasileiras
Black Irish
Cartimandu
Caryatid
Charity's Dance
Charity's Dance[detail]
Child of Light
The Concert Artist
The Concert Artist [detail]
Cutty Sark
Green Park
Harvest Home
Holiday and Mountain Home
Holiday and Mountain Home[detail]
Etta Place
Etta Place[detail]
A Season at Iosepa
A Season at Iosepa[detail]
drawings. - The Art of William Whitaker
Ariadne
The Recorder
Standing Back
Karin's Back
Indian Summer
Indian Summer
Teddy
Untitled
Untitled
Harmony
Robes
J Ai Peur(사랑의 두려움) / Paul Mauriat
About the Artist
The art world of his childhood and youth was the brave new world of abstract ｅxpression!ism and until he was well out of college his natural inclination to draw accurately and his love for traditional realism was a source of inner conflict. Nevertheless he was fortunate, starting at age 17, to receive a thorough grounding in academic figure drawing and painting from the portrait painter Alvin Gittins at the University of Utah, and after exploring other styles he followed his heart into traditional art.
Whitaker loves to paint from life in an old fashioned studio. No matter what direction his art takes him, he always comes back to the model in the studio, the form bathed in the beautiful quiet cool light coming down from a high north window. He refers to this kind of seeing and painting as the Old Testament of art and feels there is enough magic to engage him there for the rest of his life.
He believes the value of painting is to be found in its spiritual power. Having been told all his life that the kind of painting he enjoys is dead, he takes quiet comfort in lovingly attempting to capture something the camera cannot see. He is also delighted that there are so many wonderfully talented young artists who are not bound or inhibited by contemporary art world conventions and who are out to paint beautifully crafted pictures without apology.
He has been a professional artist since 1965, during which time he has conducted workshops and been a university art professor. He continues to work with one or two advanced student artists for fun. He paints about three or four hours every day ands spends the rest of the time trying not to ruin any good work he's done
drawing by Paul Calle
Whitaker giving a workshop at Brigham Young University, fall 2002
