Onelio Marrero

Ancestry, Oil Painting

2021

Artist Comments
"The Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan has an extensive collection of Roman ancestral portrait busts," states artist Onelio Marrero. "Many art students use these as subjects to hone their academic drawing skills." Onelio shares how upon observing, this young art student has an archetypal classical profile that befits the statuary she was sketching.

About the Artist
Onelio Marrero paints city scenes of everyday life. In an impressionistic style he captures the romanticism of New York City, the picturesque fountains in Central Park and the wet city streets after a rainy afternoon. His use of warm tones creates a sense of nostalgia and the feeling that you have visited or seen this particular scene before. Onelio will often paint from direct observation, or he will work from a combination of photographs and combine numerous sources into one piece. In this way his work combines reality with fantasy, creating a new story with each painting. His work captures an appreciation for beauty in all of its greatest forms; nature, art, and people.

Words that describe this painting: bust, portrait, profile, museum, gallery, Roman, marble, statue, figure, figurative, woman, people, indoor, impressionism, impressionism, people, oil painting, beige

Ancestry
Onelio Marrero
Oil painting on stretched canvas
Finished white edges
Varnished and Ready to hang
One-of-a-kind
Signed on front and back
2021
18 in. h x 24 in. w x 1.25 in. d
2 lbs. 0 oz.