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and raised in the country on the plains of eastern Colorado. He currently lives in Gothenburg, Sweden, with his wife Kristin.
Zacheriah Kramer received his education in art at The Florence Academy of Art in both Gothenburg, Sweden, and Florence, Italy. He was made an assistant instructor in classical drawing at FAA in January 2010 while he was still a student, and continues to teach drawing and intermediate painting at the school. He is a three-time winner of The Florence Academy of Art's Named Scholarship, as well as a top 18 finisher in the Art Renewal Center's Student Scholarship Contest. He received the prize for the best figure drawing or painting of the 2009-10 school year at The Florence Academy of Art, Gothenburg.
"I pursue beauty in painting. I'm interested in what it is that we experience when we encounter beauty, and what it is that this encounter does to us. Beauty brings pleasure. Beauty helps us affirm our experiences- the good with the bad, and comforts and consoles us during difficult times in a way that is universally apparent, but which can only be described verbally by poets. All beauty in art, music, and poetry is derivative beauty, and has its origin in natural beauty. Natural beauty has been the subject of much thought for thousands of years. C.S. Lewis called his experience of it Joy, Percy Shelly wanted to melt into the West Wind, Kant and the Romantics called it the Sublime, Plato saw it as the grasping of the perfect Forms, and the psalmist called it the glory of God. I'm trying to create objects of derivative beauty as a response to my experience of natural beauty, in order to bring pleasure and consolation to the individual."
