Rick Rivet

Journey No 19 - white, blue, grey, indigenous, abstract, acrylic on canvas

1994

This modern landscape painting that features a moon is by Aron Hill. Their influences were the modernists like Jack Bush and the great French Fauvist painter, Matisse. Both the form...

Enigmatic shapes and calligraphic lines dance across a flood of turquoise beneath a sky of burnished orange in this large scale painting by Alice Teichert. The artist works with thin...

The present work of art titled "Urban Abstraction (ripped off posters)" is part of a series of paintings that the artist composed in the 1980s and 1990s inspired by the observation of the urban reality of those years. The artist take the cue from his walks in Florence, both in the center and in the suburbs, and by the observation of billboards and posters scattered throughout the city. The mass of information, colors, messages and words were carried on the canvas with acrylic colors, ideally reconstructing the tears and overlaps of all the information and advertising contained on these huge sheets of paper that invade our cities. The geometric lines are overlaid with jagged lines, overlaps and color dripping and also the choice in the color palette, with different shades of white, gray, rose, orange red and blue helps in rendering the result of the tears and ripped paper. The result is a beautiful multicolored modern abstract canvas, both aesthetically and ethically, with many rich layers of color, texture and expression in which the artist leaves his own message. The painting is housed in a simple modern white lacquer wood frame. Andrea Spinelli...

"Primitive Beginnings" by Troy Smith is a vivid exploration of colour and form, reminiscent of early human artistry yet imbued with contemporary flair. Bold strokes of orange, green,...