Federico Cortese

Hourglass butterfly, Painting, Oil on Paper

2017

An original piece from the series “Please do not kill butterfliesâ€

An original piece from the series "Please do not kill butterflies", pins, oil and pencil on paper (mounted on a wood panel), 35 x 30 cm, 2018. Please, all these dead animals ...

An original piece from the series "Please do not kill butterflies", pins, oil and pencil on paper (mounted on a wood panel), 35 x 30 cm, 2018. Please, all these dead animals ... Of ...

An original piece from the series “Please do not kill butterfliesâ€

Luis Miguel Valdes (Cuba, 1949) 'Mariposa-I', 1999 aquatint on paper 15 x 11.1 in. (38 x 28 cm.) ID: 1D199908 Hand-signed by author ______________________________________________ Bio...

Framed Oil on Canvas Largely self-taught, Linda Ridd Herzog’s paintings boast unbelievably detailed animals and objects in fantastical, surreal scenes. Growing up in Utah, Herzog f...

From a fabric of lines, surfaces, shapes and structures, balanced by matte and bright colors, the artist creates landscapes, fauna and flora, motifs of animate and inanimate nature. ...

Sara Crisp embeds found organic objects such as starfish, butterfly wings and fossils into the wax surfaces of her paintings. They have often been compared to medieval reliquaries, fossilized amber, and naturalist’s journals. Although the placement of the component objects is carefully planned, she comes across these artifacts by chance. This duality between control and spontaneity is prominent in her work. The result is visually seductive and symbolically suggestive, balancing scientific objectivity and romantic subjectivity. Her work comes across as precise, even clinical, at times, their surfaces scored and traversed by carefully measured lines and geometric forms. Carefully fashioned, polygonal sections of mica, a transparent mineral, cover the center of each painting. In addition to celebrating the process involved in creating an object, Crisp’s art...