Andrei Petrov

High Falls Redux - Abstract Landscape Painting in Yellow, Blue and Green

2015

Ruggero Vanni's Birth of Light is a 60 x 48 inch abstract gestural oil painting. It is an abstract landscape of vigorous brushstrokes and light, with a strong luminous central focus. The main colors are orange, yellow, and rust. There are clear references to the masters of the Hudson River School, also known as Luminism, as well as the Romantic paintings of English artist William Turner. Vanni states, "My works allude to natural phenomena, in a raw state, devoid of the limiting constrictions of literal representation. Nature is there, as a landscape, a view looking up in the air, or plunging down underwater. Imagery kept on the edge of recognition, so the final association is created in the mind. Contrasts of matter, color, light, are created to provoke emotional responses. In the large paintings the atmospheric composition is built by raised brushstrokes shattered and reassembled to reveal an underlying struggle. In the smaller works paper is cast tumultuously as a counterpoint to its inherent frailness. References to the history of painting are multiple and mixed: Venetian impasto and glazing, Luminist light, Abstract Expressionist texture, Baroque perspective. It is important to avoid mannerism, metabolize the suggestions and integrate them with empirical visual stimuli. Dissecting responses to everyday experiences into light, color, matter. There is no intent to escape reality, but to create a visual experience that communicates directly with our psyche; open to be reinterpreted continuously through our own evolution and the changing times." Ruggero Vanni was born in Paris. He studied painting from 1973 to 1978 at the Istituto d’Arte in Rome, Italy, under the guidance of Italian artist Michelangelo Conte...

Andrei Petrov's Time Transfixed is a 24 x 48 inch abstract landscape oil painting on canvas. It is a lyric abstraction in green with accents of blue and purple. The reference to a natural landscape is clearly there, almost like falling tree branches reflecting on the water surface of a lake. Petrov works by applying layers of paint and then scraping off some parts to reveal the shades underneath. The play of transparencies, brushstrokes and lights brings to life an emotional and relaxing composition. Andrei Petrov is an American Artist of Russian origins. He lives and works in New York. He states "In my approach two roads...

Ruggero Vanni's Summer Swirls is a 64 x 52-inch abstract gestural oil painting. The main colors are red and orange. The artist alternates very gestural and instinctive large brush strokes, with delicate...

Alfredo Aya’s El Jardín de Cecilia ("Cecilia's Garden") embodies the harmony of nature through a vibrant abstraction of color and form. Presented as a diptych, the artwork bridges tw...

Tranquil Waters by Henrietta Stuart. Soft light on the River Thames between Richmond and Teddington Loch. A painting portraying early morning peacefuln...

Alison Johnson Distance Original Seascape Painting Oil Paint on Canvas Canvas Size: H 60cm x W 80cm Sold Unframed Please note that in situ images are purely an indication of how a pi...

Helen Howells Gathering Storm Original Oil Painting on Canvas Oil Paint on Canvas Canvas size: H 91cm x W 91cm x D 3.5cm Sold Unframed (Please note that in situ images are purely an ...

Annamarie Dzendrowskyj Fleeting Moments II Original oil painting, Abstract art, Contemporary monochrome painting. Oil on Linen Canvas ...