Mario Surbone

Black Flower - Original Charcoal and Watercolor by Mario Surbone - 1987

1987

Black flower is an original contemporary artwork realized in 1987 by Mario Surbone. Colored mixed media (watercolor and carchoal) on paper. Hand signe...

Flowers is a beautiful artwork realized by Maurizio Gracceva in the 2017. Mixed colored ink on paper. Hand signed by the artist. Original title: Fiori Title, date, techinique and ...

Watercolor on brightly colored paper, signed Gibor, with wooden frame mis.cm.h.65x56

Flowers were one of Culver's favorite subject. This stunning portrait of a red flower draws the viewer into its very center as powerfully as any flower portrait by Georgia O'Keeffe. It is the idyllic flower that can be described as in the romantic style wherein the subject depicted is a more desired or dramatic version of what actually is. It is signed and dated by the artist on the lower left. This piece has been professionally reframed with acid-free matting and museum glass. In a 1952 Detroit Free Press article, entitled “Artist Explains His Work,” Culver was asked why he painted the way he did. He stated: “I try to ‘see’ though not too exactly; I try to think though not too ponderously; I feel emotion yet I try not to become overwrought. I interpret rather than describe, and design rather than depict. I work with values, not light and shade; hence, when I am successful, I achieve substance rather than three-dimensional form, and this satisfies me as being wholly sufficient. In my work I wish to be serious without becoming a bore, exuberant without being frivolous, humorous without being silly. I believe that good paintings are conceived, not contrived; and I am interested in art much more than in pictures.” Charles Culver...