Frederick J. Kayser Painting on Canvas

Description: This painting is from the estate of Frederick J. Kayser, who passed away in 2003. Frederick "Fred" Kayser was a New Mexico artist who skillfully developed many different painting techniques and media while forging his own unique style. Large expressive eyes were one of his trademark characteristics when painting people. Kayser also perfected or incorporated "controlled chaos" splatter paint techniques into many of his works.Although Kayser was somewhat eccentric, he was also a spiritually-oriented individual that explored a variety of subjects. Kayser was primarily an abstract or impressionistic artist whose first love was painting nude women. I will be offering a cross section of a limited number of available remaining works by Mr. Kayser. My hope is that you will not be able to resist adding a quality Kayser painting or two to your collection! I just want them to go to a good loving home!More information about the Artist:Artist: Frederick J. Kayser March 17, 1915 – August 7, 2003Kayser retired to Deming, New Mexico in 1978 after a busy life of study. Among the places he studied at are art schools in Detroit and Toledo, the Barnes Foundation, the Pennsylvania Academy of Arts and the Art Student’s League in New York, He also taught in California, Michigan and New Mexico. His art has been exhibited (to mention only New Mexico galleries) at 21st Century Fox in Santa Fe, the New Mexico Artist’s League, Cathey Peterson’s and El-Dor in Albuquerque.In an unusual stroke of bad luck, Kayser lost 30 of his paintings in an exhibit at the Las Cruces University Center for the Creative Arts when the center was destroyed by fire in 1987. Such a loss would be devastating for many persons but he remained, to use his own words, “a perpetual student of art, philosophy, spirituality and psychology.”Of his many instructors, the most famous was George Grosz, whose powerful drawings savagely attacked the social situation in Germany in the 1920’s. Kayser remembered him as an inspiring teacher whose concern was to encourage a student to follow his own bent—there wasn’t any attempt to propagate the artist’s bitter criticism and satire.Another stimulating teacher was Lucille Potts of New York who taught how to utilize the subconscious in creating art: start with some wild disorderly scribbles on a sheet of paper and then sit back and wait to see what those lines suggest in the way of pictures, objects and subject matter. Kayser demonstrated this method at a lecture at the Deming KOTS Art Association to the great interest of his audience of practicing artists.Kayser’s advice to beginning artists was, “Observe and draw, draw, draw.” His own first formal art education was in cartooning, and this still shows in his easy facility in drawing with a pen or with brush and ink. He also drew with pencil or charcoal pencil but didn’t use the soft smeary pastels. His paintings were in oils or acrylics. The latter are convenient because they dry quickly. “Sometimes too quickly in this dry climate,” he said. “But the new oil paints seem to take longer and longer to dry, sometimes even weeks. I tend to do oil, then an acrylic and then switch back to oil again.”His subject matter is varied and includes portraits, situations or incidents, figures, abstractions, nudes, flowers and landscapes. His compositions are “out of my head,” he explained. He does use pictures or slides for reference to see, for instance, just what a breaking wave looks like.Frederick Kayser was ultimately a follower of the artwork created by Paul Jackson Pollock who was a first generation abstract expressionist in the genre of American modern painting. Kayser, for example, created landscapes and atmospheric paintings using Joseph Turner’s gold techniques, Bill Senter’s techniques for creating water effects, and implementing paint markings like to the style of Pollock.Beginning at an age similar to Turner, Kayser began his art career at age 13, submitted drawings and poetry to the Detroit News Art Contests for which he did receive first prize on several occasions and this became vital encouragement to pursue the calling of an artist in his life. He was born just three years after Pollock in 1915.Kayser grew up in the north and studied art at the Academy of Arts and Crafts in Detroit, Michigan. Frederick also exhibited in the Detroit Institute of Arts with several single artist featured shows in addition to featuring in Ann Arbor art shows which were juried. Later he began the study of painting at Manual Arts High School in Los Angeles.

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Location: El Paso, Texas

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