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Loren D. Adams, Jr. Sir
Rennaissance man, Loren D. Adams,Jr. Sir is now celebrating 41 years as a professional Fine Arts
Classic Surrealist Artist/Innovator.
Adams was born in Linton, Indiana on September 28th, 1945. He developed a profound interest in
painting at the age of nine years old. One of these very early original Art-works found it's way into a
major retrospective exhibition at the prestigious R.W. Norton Art Gallery, a Museum of Early American,
European and Contemporary Fine Art in Shreveport, Louisiana in February of 1979.
His first public exhibit was at the Roseville Museum, Roseville, California in 1967. This was the same
year he quit his day job as an emergency room L.P.N. to devote full time to his Art. The young Artist
began to chase after his dream to become a Master.
Today his beautiful original oil paintings & limited editions are in Museums and important collections
world-wide. Not content to rest on his past laurels, he continues to extend the borders of his creative
excellence, always searching for a finer expression of his ideals.
His love of classical music has often caused him to consider a career as a concert pianist, instead the
Art and Music have combined to create a deeper resonance and added a richer colour to both.
The relationship between sound and light is an important phenomenon to the Artist because of the fact that
the electromagnetic spectrum is also divisible into the two relative human senses of hearing & seeing, which
Loren Adams refers to as “the Chromatic Sequence” He illustrates the relationship between sight and sound
modulations in musical intervals and the primaries & hues of the artist colour wheel in the following manner:
Do, Re, Mi, Fa, So, La, Ti, Do = yellow, orange, red, violet, blue, green, indigo to yellow at the next level with
a new octave... with every colour having it’s own music note equivalent & each note having a corresponding
colour. The range of human hearing is about 12 octaves and the range of sight which is also a vibration starts
at infer-red at the lowest visibility... all the way through the spectrum to ultra-violet at the highest frequency.
Each Colour matures at a different value in terms of pigments with cobalt blue being pure in the first octave.
Yellow is at it's purest at the 9th octave or the 18th value measuring from to black to white which at the 24th
value or the 12th octave. Being conscious of these intervals when he mixes his palette of oil pigments before
starting to paint naturally gives more consciousness to using the colours. With this in his mind his paintings
are thus composed as though they were symphonic creations as he deftly orchestrates the forms and values
with beautiful precision.
His interpretation of classical music is very colourful; to say it best he’s playing the light & the colours as well
as the written score, which to this artist is another dimension that was indeed intended by the composer. He
gets most of his inspiration from classical music and esoteric writing of the Spiritual genre without prejudice
and from these lovely ideals he paints his dreams & visions. He calls his Art-form Classic Surrealism & also
Nuclear Mysticism. His Paintings are very beautiful & most of them represent portals to: The Journey to the
City of God "Citadel Divina" or the Divine City. The most striking thing about all of his artistic creations is
the quality of lighting and the detail in his shadows. His portrayal of light dancing on the moving water has
set him in a league all by himself. He loves to paint the ocean and the sea in all of her many moods which he
knows to be the most emotional subject. From a quiet crystal calm day to a gigantic storm with a maelstrom
Loren Adams can paint it like no-one else can and convince any viewer that they could get wet!
He is a serious Artist that believes that it takes perfection as a goal to achieve a Masterpiece. "Each brushstroke
is just as important as the whole picture and is the center of my consciousness." "Knowing all the while that a
single sour or poorly formed note would ruin a symphony... and likewise would also ruin a fine oil painting!"
As he says over & over again. In order for any Artwork to be great there are several things that it must be, and
it must measure up to the standards that other great Art does measure up to. Loren Adams believes that Fine
Art must be intellectually stimulating & the composition must be mathematically perfect. The perspective has
to based on accuracy especially if the painting contains Architecture or even Architectural elements. It needs
to be historically significant & have a meaning that tells a story important enough to help widen the planetary
cultural base. And above all else it must be well painted.
Unless an Art-work has value to the Artist it is un-likely that anyone else will value it either. Loren Adams is
reluctant to part with his originals at all and has kept many of his favourites over the past 25 years. He prefers
to sell Limited Editions of these paintings & keep as many as he can for the Loren Adams Museum of Fine Art
which now contains several that "just aren't for sale at any price!" They are all like his children and he needs to
feel certain that he would enjoy visiting his children in a collectors home before he's willing to sell them. Just
because someone has money and can afford to buy one does not impress this Artist... some people will never
have enough money to own his work. Collectors who are fortunate to purchase them know they're adopting
not acquiring them. There is an undeniable responsibility that goes along with collecting Fine Art because he
painted them for the whole world, not just for the wealthy. However he doesn't give them away either... when
someone does buy one they pay handsomely in respectful figures because he wants them to go to good homes
where he knows they will be well cared for and insured.
Seriously speaking... the Artist loves to quote Benjamin Franklin from his Poor Richard's Almanac: "There will
always be someone who can make something cheaper & sell it for less, as a bargain, & anybody who considers
price alone is this man's lawful prey... I have no quarrel with anyone who settles for less, they know what their
product is worth!" "Until they're ready to get serious, they are going to call someone who is serious sophisticated,
arrogant or belligerent snobs... Their in-ability to make a decision for themselves based in facts with clear logic
and knowledge is determined by their emotional attachment to their point of view, which makes it difficult for
them to make a rational decision about serious matters at all. And to anyone who is not serious about collecting
he quotes Duveen; "they're not ready to deal with me yet, they'll need to keep making a few more mistakes first!"
And finally he wants the world to know that "when it's real Art, perhaps it's not for everyone!" because it's not
about money and it's not about "real estate" and it is not about anything of Dynastic proportions, it's about Art!
The State of California, in The Fine Arts Statute in the Civil Code, Art is declared as the exact opposite of crime!
Written with the permission of the Artist by Pua Harmony
Pua Harmony is Assistant Director/Curator
Loren Adams Studio/Museum of Fine Art
P.O. Box 1496 Makawao, Hawaii 96768
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