{"id":59,"date":"2021-06-02T08:23:12","date_gmt":"2021-06-02T08:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/venu4445.local\/?p=59"},"modified":"2023-05-15T04:18:30","modified_gmt":"2023-05-15T04:18:30","slug":"les-graff-rca-remembered-prairie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/venumagazine.com\/les-graff-rca-remembered-prairie\/","title":{"rendered":"Artist Les Graff (RCA) Remembered Prairie"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"59\" class=\"elementor elementor-59\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-3a90b7f7 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default qodef-elementor-content-no\" data-id=\"3a90b7f7\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-78a186db\" data-id=\"78a186db\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5a9e6597 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"5a9e6597\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.12.2 - 23-04-2023 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#69727d;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#69727d;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<p>By Angela Bugera and Margaret Witschl<\/p><p>At 85, Les Graff (RCA) is a prolific and energetic artist. His detailed and highly active painting style is as much a self-portrait of the inner man as it is observations of the external world. His mind and body are in constant motion.<\/p><p>Graff\u2019s abstract expressionist work touches one deeply. It is evocative and soothing, soft and jarring. It is a symphony and a cacophony of color, shadow, and gesture. It is visually tactile, looking like velvet in some places and unyielding in other places.<\/p><p>Born, the son of the local butcher in Camrose, Alberta in 1936, Graff started painting at a very young age. With encouragement and support from the town, he studied and graduated from the College of Art and Design in Calgary, Alberta and went on to earn a graduate degree in 1960 from the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield, Michigan.<\/p><p>Graff has maintained a daily studio practice for over 60 years. He also served as the Director of Visual Arts, Alberta; influencing policy and spearheading the establishment of the Alberta Foundation for the Arts.<\/p><p>Solidifying his place in Canadian art history, Les Graff was inducted into the Canadian Academy of the Arts (RCA) in 2016 for his artistic merit and his contributions to the arts.<\/p><p>\u201cThe subject for my work continues to be the prairie environment, which by now has become a spiritual touchstone. There is now a need to bypass the concrete and to instead explore the intangibles. Colour continues to be the all-important dimension of my voice.\u201d\u00a0 \u2014 Les Graff \u2610<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-18b27c9 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default qodef-elementor-content-no\" data-id=\"18b27c9\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-b078c58\" data-id=\"b078c58\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0c00c3d elementor-widget elementor-widget-gallery\" data-id=\"0c00c3d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" 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