Anne B Schwartz

330 Swimming in Sorrento, Painting, Oil on Canvas

2018

This painting can hang alone or with companion, 409 Morano. This is a thick colorful painting with many layers of paint. The main colors are blue, orange, yellow, and various earth t...

Hiking up a mountain in Capri, peering through a rock with a hole in the middle, was my inspiration for this painting. It is a medium-large painting, full of color and texture. Pleas...

Warm colors on a canvas full of energy. Slight Asian feeling due to colors and brush strokes in painting. Large open spaces. :: Painting :: Abstract :: This piece comes with an offi...

This painting is pure drama! Lots of thick white paint with subtle colors. This painting has a great deal of movement. Can also hang horizontal. :: Painting :: Abstract :: This piec...

406 Piazza in San Gregorio, Original Abstract Painting 48x60 (HxW), Oil Paint Artist Commentary: This is a big, juicy oil painting! With warm colors of oranges, yellows, and white. ...

At once elegant and expressive, this dynamic and colourful abstract painting is one in a series created by Canadian visual artist Richard Tosczak in collaboration with an Italian artist. The colour palette is vivid—deep blue, yellow, orange, green, pink turquoise and melon. Tosczak is perhaps best known for his beautiful figurative sculptural work. Angela Letizia Renzi, the Italian artist who worked with Tosczak is a ‘lover of literature and linguistics.’ This acrylic painting was inspired by an Italian myth—the story of a young man who saved the island of Sicily from sinking by diving underwater and shouldering the columns that hold up the island. Renzi and Tosczak paint these canvases together and at the same time. Their artistic interaction is important to the works they create. “The philosophical artistic formation of one and the literary humanistic of the other, are intertwined in a common vocabulary, a visual language of colour, gesture and form: this is our lexicon, our morphosyntax, the grammar of our language." Tosczak and Renzi Richard Tosczak was born in Belgium. He studied philosophy and sculpture at the University of Alberta. At that time, Tosczak began working in steel and was influenced by a number of his professors who appreciated the work of a British abstract sculptor, Sir Anthony Caro considered one of the greatest sculptors of his generation. Further studies were pursued in France with another internationally acclaimed classic sculptor, Martine Vaugel...

408 The Hike, Original Abstract Painting 48x60 (HxW), Oil Paint Artist Commentary: This oil painting reminds me of taking a hike along a path and exploring along the path interest...