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Richard Woodruff
My earliest and most important influences were a book written by Hiram Williams: “Notes for a Young Painter” https://www.amazon.com/Notes-Young-Painter-Hiram-Williams/dp/0136241158, conversations with him as well as with Geoff Naylor, Ken Kerslake, and Jerry Uelsmann, all of whom taught at the University of Florida in the Fine Arts Department. Additionally, ideas from Frank Stella, Pablo Picasso, Marcel Duchamp, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and other German Expressionists, Der Blue Reiter Group, Kasimir Malevich, and Amedee Ozenfant and Charles Edouard Jeannette (Le Corbusier), and the surrealists.
As with anything else that goes into the creation of art, scale is certainly an important component. My paintings are large because the imagery would not work for me at a smaller scale. If I could work larger, I probably would.
~ Richard Woodruff