Onelio Marrero

Generations, Oil Painting

2021

Artist Comments
"The focus here is on the knowledgeable grandfather elaborating on a Renoir painting in the Wallace Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York," says artist Onelio Marrero. "The painting encompasses the relationships between generations by the juxtaposition of the live figures and the painted ones in the Renoir." Part of Onelio's ongoing series of works that feature museum-goers and galleries.

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: museum, gallery, teacher, grandson, grandfather, Metropolitan Museum, New York City, NYC, Manhattan, Renoir, family, impressionism, people, representational, oil painting, green

Generations
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
16 in. h x 20 in. w x 1.25 in. d
1 lbs. 8 oz.