Federico Cortese

Motorbike, Painting, Oil on Canvas

2019

A crowded intersection on a cool day in Pittsburgh, as the light turned green. The resolution of the figures and the activity of city life remind me of the regionalist painters of th...

You seem so grown up to yourself. And you act like an adult. You copy them in everything. Trying to become like them. You're doing pretty well. But the problem is that you don't see...

The most unpleasant thing for me in this life is to wait. Any queue of people more than 3 people drives me into depression. If someone is late for a meeting, I worry about that perso...

Do you remember how all these reminders end? I tried to make this picture as neutral as possible, in terms of nationality. You will not find a single direct hint of a particular cou...

Kayo Lennar (French/ American, b. 1923), "Barfleur Evening", Oil on Canvas, 1983, signed lower right, titled and dated to verso, ebonized and gilt wood frame. Image: 29.5" H x 23.5" ...

A painting by Nathan Oliveira. "Nude Stepping from the Carpet" is a contemporary painting, oil on canvas in a palette of reds, greens, and beiges by Bay Area figurative artist Nathan Oliveira. The artwork is signed in the lower right, "N Oliveira 62". During the early years, Oliveira’s lone figures often suggest an existential angst similar to that of Giacometti, but there is also a weightlessness and a transcendent aura that envelopes these figures; they appear as elemental, universal and eternal projections of selfless consciousness better understood within the bodiless realm of metaphysics. These qualities would remain in his work throughout his long career, yet he would find other themes to explore — the natural world where the essential nature of birds and animals exist in equal profundity with their human counterparts, the transient world of evanescent perception when memory must reconstruct momentary experience, and later, the ‘site’ paintings and monoprints that suggest the abandoned remnants of a long-lost civilization or tribe uncovered at an archeological dig. Nathan Oliveira has left us with a legacy of art that will surely remain untarnished by time or changing trends. His work exists within a realm rarely achieved by artists striving in a similar mode of expression. Unclouded by ego or wayward sentiment, it is also in the warmth and humble nature...

A painting by Nathan Oliveira. "Figure with Blue Eyes" is a figurative painting, oil on canvas in a palette of browns and creams with a pop of blue by Bay Area Figurative artist Nath...

Untitled Signed, l.r. Oil on paper 16 x 13 inches (40.6 x 33 cm), framed 10 x 7.5 inches (25.4 x 19.1 cm), image This work is offered by CLAMP in New York City.