The viewer is immediately captured by the\u00a0boldly joyful colors\u00a0and dancing movement of Cara Moran\u2019s paintings. The layers of shiny paint are applied with instinctual flair using the timeless\u00a0impasto technique.<\/p>\n
Cara Moran has always been in love with the way that color and form can speak. She grew up as the daughter of a successful artist, Charles H. Pabst, watching and learning, fine-tuning her inherited talent. While obtaining a BA in Art History at Arizona State University, she enjoyed taking in every interesting detail about the origins and cultures from which art pieces have emerged.<\/p>\n
As a student, she also apprenticed with modern artist Beth Ames Swartz, “who has always been a source of inspiration for color and expression within my work.” While absorbing the diverse approaches of contemporary and historical artists, Cara developed a style all her own, capturing the fleeting beauty of the natural world with the quickest of impressions.<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u201cA flower is fleetingly sweet, fresh, cheerful, and purely natural. There is nothing contrived in the way in which it bursts forth, making an always-welcomed appearance. There is perfect order and joy in its constant cycle of life. Perhaps this is why I was naturally\u00a0drawn to\u00a0capturing them\u00a0as my main source of inspiration.\u00a0Clouds, in all their fresh and constant movement, make such an incredible backdrop. My eyes will never tire of these portraits of time. Our Creator is unspeakable, ever-changing beauty, and I can only capture a seconds-worth of this eternal order in my own way. I am thankful for\u00a0such a wonderful\u00a0privilege.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Moran\u2019s work has been enthusiastically received, exuding an energy and joy that her public finds compelling. Using almost exclusively palette knife, the texture she achieves makes her work three dimensional. But it\u2019s the fourth dimension, the intangible quality that captivates the viewer and holds him spellbound.<\/p>\n Growing up in the Arizona desert, Cara moved from Phoenix to Prescott, Arizona, in 2000. She has since returned to Phoenix where her primary job is raising her six children. \u00a0\u00a0\u201cThey provide my greatest inspiration. Their innocence and beauty bring me such a depth of hope and joy. I want to speak this joy in my paintings.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n \t\t\t\t Capturing Beauty<\/strong><\/p>\n Interview by Marie Picard We met with the beloved Cara Pabst Moran before the unveiling of her biggest collection ever<\/strong>\u00a0and it was refreshing! Here are some of her revelations about her art:<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Why do you do what you do? How do you build your technique? <\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cI love to paint with the technique I use; smearing a palette knife piled with bright green onto a juicy pink is a huge rush for me.\u00a0I just do it. It’s who I am.\u201d<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n What is the role of an artist? What do you want people to feel and experience when they look at your pieces?<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cIdentifying and celebrating the beauties of life is the artist’s true calling. I like to do this by highlighting nature’s connectedness, movement, life, and color. We are all powerfully connected, and it really is quite beautiful to realize this.\u201d<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Any artist that had an impact in your work?<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cPicasso and Matisse’s ability to create powerful emotion in the most simplistic and striking way has always appealed to me. Although, being female, I’m put off by their grotesque and somewhat brutal portrayals of women and like to focus on natural landscapes at this point in my career.\u201d<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n What does the future hold? <\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cIn the future, I plan to focus on subjects and colors that are more ethereal and spiritual, but still in keeping with my simplistic and sculptural palette knife technique.\u201d<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Cara Pabst Moran, Color and Expression:<\/strong><\/p>\n Cara is what we could qualify today of a \u201cModern Fauvism\u201d a painting movement from the early twentieth-century. This era was qualified by, artists whose works emphasize very strong colors and thick texture over the representational or realistic values retained by Impressionism. Cara\u2019s work presents an emotional experience capturing the vibrant beauty of the natural world. She takes her inspiration from her six children that feed her work with hope and joy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00a0Meet the Artist \u00a0 “I am a contemporary artist specializing in bold, clean colors and highly textured drama. I love playing with colors, and draw my inspirations from graphic delectables…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carapabstmoran.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carapabstmoran.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carapabstmoran.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carapabstmoran.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carapabstmoran.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.carapabstmoran.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":414,"href":"https:\/\/www.carapabstmoran.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35\/revisions\/414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carapabstmoran.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Cara\"](\"http:\/\/carapabstmoran.wpsplit.com\/files\/2016\/04\/Cara-1.jpg\")
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June 2015<\/p>\n