Nahum Tschacbasov

Host Frank Kleinholz says the words artist and painter should not be used interchangeably. But he believes one of the few painters who is also an artist is his guest, Nahum Tschacbasov (Pronounced CHOCK-bassov) Tschacbasov talks about his change from reportorial to abstract painting. He also talks briefly about his philosophy of combining realism and abstraction the artist's struggle to bring out his own individuality.

Tschacbasov sums up his philosophy this way: "Everything in art must be free. The artist must reach emancipation and express his complete conception as it flows from idea to idea. And from impulse to impulse. Works of art conceived in broad mathematical terms of space have more than the ballyhooed magic of illusion or technique as commentaries see it. Creative work is strange because it violates the pictorial experience of people. There is no sharp break between modern and traditional art. The problem underlying all good painting is eternal."

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