Francisco Bartus

Francisco Bartus, "Love is the Answer", 32x32, Textured Mixed Media Painting

2024

This cheerful and whimsical piece, "Down the Slope" is a 32x32 mixed media painting on canvas by artist Antonio Soler capturing a crowded scene of skiers...

This piece, "Immeasurable Love", is a 19.75x59 mixed media painting on canvas by artist Francisco Bartus. Featured are the letters L.O.V.E., made up of individual helpings of paint, ...

This piece, "Four Corners of Love", is a 47x47 mixed media painting on canvas by artist Francisco Bartus. Featured are the letters L.O.V.E., made up of multicolored individual helpin...

This piece, "All You Need is Love", is a 32x32 mixed media painting on canvas by artist Francisco Bartus. Featured is a script made up of individual helpings of paint, spelling out t...

This piece, "Love Unconditionally", 40 x 40 mixed media painting on canvas by artist Francisco Bartus. Featured is the word LOVE, stacked as a square, made up of individual helpings ...

This piece, "Circle of Life", is a 20x20 mixed media painting on canvas by artist Francisco Bartus. Featured is a circle fading out to white, made up of individual helpings of paint,...

Childhood, a reoccurring theme in Darlene Cole’s work, is represented by prepubescent girls and boys, engaged in some type of action. Without adult supervision, these activities confer on Cole’s children an adult-like aura, empowering them. The artist cites Neil Postman’s 1982 book about the decline in innocence in American culture The Disappearance of Childhood as a text that informs her work. In it, Postman argues that communications technology, such as the invention of the television and later, the Internet, contributed to children losing their innocence, thus transforming them into young adults. A source of inspiration for Cole are the works of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, a group of English painters, poets and critics, founded in 1848. They studied nature attentively, employed vivid colours and depicted unconventional-looking women. Just like in Pre-Raphaelite works, the girls in Cole’s paintings embody enigma, distance, and beauty. The past, in general, is a great source of inspiration for the artist. Cole’s cottage, or ‘artist’s retreat’ as she calls it, was built at the beginning of the 20th century. Since she kept all the original furniture and linens intact, the cottage, on the side of a lake, seems to belong to the past. Nature, another omnipresent theme in Cole’s work, is in many works represented by flowers, such as pink David Austin roses...

Childhood, a reoccurring theme in Darlene Cole’s work, is represented by prepubescent girls and boys, engaged in some type of action. Without adult supervision, these activities confer on Cole’s children an adult-like aura, empowering them. The artist cites Neil Postman’s 1982 book about the decline in innocence in American culture The Disappearance of Childhood as a text that informs her work. In it, Postman argues that communications technology, such as the invention of the television and later, the Internet, contributed to children losing their innocence, thus transforming them into young adults. A source of inspiration for Cole are the works of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, a group of English painters, poets and critics, founded in 1848. They studied nature attentively, employed vivid colours and depicted unconventional-looking women. Just like in Pre-Raphaelite works, the girls in Cole’s paintings embody enigma, distance, and beauty. The past, in general, is a great source of inspiration for the artist. Cole’s cottage, or ‘artist’s retreat’ as she calls it, was built at the beginning of the 20th century. Since she kept all the original furniture and linens intact, the cottage, on the side of a lake, seems to belong to the past. Nature, another omnipresent theme in Cole’s work, is in many works represented by flowers, such as pink David Austin roses...

Childhood, a reoccurring theme in Darlene Cole’s work, is represented by prepubescent girls and boys, engaged in some type of action. Without adult supervision, these activities confer on Cole’s children an adult-like aura, empowering them. The artist cites Neil Postman’s 1982 book about the decline in innocence in American culture The Disappearance of Childhood as a text that informs her work. In it, Postman argues that communications technology, such as the invention of the television and later, the Internet, contributed to children losing their innocence, thus transforming them into young adults. A source of inspiration for Cole are the works of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, a group of English painters, poets and critics, founded in 1848. They studied nature attentively, employed vivid colours and depicted unconventional-looking women. Just like in Pre-Raphaelite works, the girls in Cole’s paintings embody enigma, distance, and beauty. The past, in general, is a great source of inspiration for the artist. Cole’s cottage, or ‘artist’s retreat’ as she calls it, was built at the beginning of the 20th century. Since she kept all the original furniture and linens intact, the cottage, on the side of a lake, seems to belong to the past. Nature, another omnipresent theme in Cole’s work, is in many works represented by flowers, such as pink David Austin roses...

Original art by Lesia Danilina. Abstract acrylic painting on canvas "Endless Summer". "Flowers are the remnants of heaven on earth." Each of my paintings in this series looks as if ...

Original art by Lesia Danilina. Abstract acrylic painting on canvas "Roses for dessert". "Flowers are the remnants of heaven on earth." Each of my paintings in this series looks as ...

After the rain, abstract large poppies by Mary Chaplin, artist : A summer rain falls on the poppies in the garden of contemporary artist Mary Chaplin bringing a new source of inspira...