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CALIARTS
Wadmalaw Island, SC USA
A Link to the Art of Bernadette Cali
note: Artist's website will open in a new window.
Each new school year, as I begin to teach art, I have to lay bare the fears of my students -- fear that they won't succeed of course, the little ones are still free, but the teenagers are possessed by the same fears as their parents. "I can't draw." If I hear that one more time I'll scream. Who cares? That's not what it's all about. Art is a search, an adventure, a trial-and-error experiment. There is no failure . . . ever. It's impossible. What an incredible freedom, there's only you and the "problem" at hand. A problem that doesn't even matter. This fearless adventure of creativity is a true and joyous giving of oneself over to the path to enlightenment. Art, like life, is a process, not a product. The only failure is fear....
-- An excerpt from a newspaper article
by Bernadette Cali
Read this and other articles written by the artist at
caliarts.com/articles.htm
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My father is an artist and I grew up in his studio. I consider myself
self taught as I avoid workshops like the plague. Art for me is a discovery
of how I see the world, not how somebody else does. I received my formal art education, however, in New York, Milan and South Carolina. My studies were of a philosophical bent, not technical.
