Fruin Bruce Charles Bravington

Continental Landscape - 20th Century Hilly European Fields Farm Oil Painting

1964

A beautiful signed and dated 1963 French cubist oil on canvas depicting Paris rooftops. Signature in bottom right corner is indistinct. A lovely painting in excellent condition. Art...

A very beautiful 1930's oil on canvas by French artist Jean Busquets depicting the garden of the Parc de Saint-Cloud on the outskirts of Paris. Excellent...

A beautiful large mid 20th century oil on canvas abstract winter landscape by Swedish artist Gunnar Nordstrom. Excellent quality and condition composition with strong and vibrant i...

A beautiful 1950's French oil on canvas depicting a white house on a tree lined street by Peter Orlando. Distinctly evocative of France, we feel as though we have been been through t...

A beautiful large English oil on canvas depicting sunset at Brixham Harbour in Devon. Excellent quality and very atmospheric work in superb original condition. Signed lower left and...

A beautiful 1930's French post-impressionist oil on canvas depicting the Pont Royal bridge on the river Seine in Paris, by Bertrand Py. Excellent quality a...

Collection: Multiple Perspectives Artist Statement Having started my career by painting Rembrandt-like portraits of luminous white roses, I credit my discovery of fractals for transforming my artistic vision, and changing the direction and force of my work. Always working with a single image of a flower, or a component thereof, I have stripped away the mask of the exterior form and magnified the interior thousands of times to depths beyond what is visible to the naked eye. My subject is no longer simply a flower; it is a dynamical system existing in a chaotic universe filled with energy, turbulence, mystery and beauty. Additionally, I have discovered that the system repeats itself through multiple phenomena. This is where I have taken the literal definition of fractals, and put my creative voice to the principles. Though the non-representational work may suggest a natural likeness - a wing, a wave, a shell, or even a human form - my vision invites a fresh dialogue between aesthetics and science. Whether creating evocative representational images or boldly deceptive non-objective work, my focus is always on the choreography of the movement, the organization of the space, the subtlety in the tonal transitions, and the intricacy of the brushwork. Exclusively painting...

PROVENCAL Series: “In [this] series I was exploring the classical influences of the impressionist masters, to build on their ideas to move them forward, yet being true to the many ap...

Paul Manes was born May 4, 1948 in Austin, Texas. He began his professional career in New York City in the early 1980s. His art has been widely exhibited in America and Europe and hi...

PROVENCAL Series: “In [this] series I was exploring the classical influences of the impressionist masters, to build on their ideas to move them forward, yet being true to the many ap...

SHEPHERD’S PASS Series: “In [this] series I wanted to move into expressing more of a post-impressionist mode by deconstructing with lyricism, while not fracturing in hard edges; so a...

PROVENCAL Series: “In [this] series I was exploring the classical influences of the impressionist masters, to build on their ideas to move them forward, yet being true to the many ap...