Frantisek Florian

CANVAS 139, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas

2021

spring morning Bernard Simunovic, Germany, 2022 Acrylic on Canvas, 85 x 150 cm :: Painting :: Contemporary :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed b...

My soul mate Bernard Simunovic, Germany, 2022 Acrylic on Canvas, 70x155cm :: Painting :: Contemporary :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the...

Sensual beauty Bernard Simunovic, Germany, 2022 Acrylic on Canvas, 100 x 140 cm :: Painting :: Contemporary :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed ...

just like a fairy tale Bernard Simunovic, Germany, 2022 Acrylic on Canvas, 110 x 155 cm :: Painting :: Contemporary :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity...

Aaron Karp is a practicing artist of more than 40 years. Originally from New York he has lived in Albuquerque, New Mexico since 1979 where he worked as an Assistant Professor of Pai...

This large, contemporary, landscape, acrylic on canvas is by Brent Mcintosh. Valued for his exceptional sense of color, Canadian painter Brent McIntosh has spent thirty years perfec...

"Memorias" Painting 34" x 28" inch by Antonio Pelayo Medium: Acrylic Ink & Paint on Animation Acetate Image size: 25" x 19" inch Size framed: 34" x 28...

"Popeye" Painting 20" x 20" inch by Antonio Pelayo Medium: Acrylic Ink & Paint on Animation Acetate Image size: 13" x 13" inch Size framed: 20" x 20" inch Artist Antonio Pelayo, born in Glendale, California, and yet raised for most of his childhood in the Mexican countryside, has never had his own country. Moving from an American suburb to a tiny village has kept his world unstable, yet that very instability has made him an artist. Antonio was born in 1973 in a comfortable, quintessentially American suburb: close neighbors, picket fences, movie theatres, malls, and English all around. At nine, his family sent him back to his father’s village in Mexico, where the environment radically changed: old broken down adobe churches replaced galleries and the trappings of suburbia. Some adjustments were difficult, like dealing with outdoor plumbing and the transition to a Spanish-speaking environment. Teased and ostracized by other kids, and unable to communicate with the adults, Antonio looked elsewhere for, if not companionship, at least solace. He found it with a pencil and in the pews. He snuck into the village church and stared up at the murals of martyrdom. He hid in the dark corners and sketched the artwork that covered the walls and altars. Antonio sought out the work of other Mexican artists, making them his mentors; his friends. Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, and Orozco, all revealed to Antonio the depth of Mexican art and its movement from the shadows of the Catholic Church into the modern world. He learned Spanish. He strove to master it, hoping to communicate with the folks of the village. Still, there was a gap; the language barrier between poor farmers and the middle class kept him from meeting people on an intimate level. Nevertheless, he now had three languages: English, Spanish, and his drawings. Years later his family brought him back to Glendale, which he now saw through the lens of Mexico. It looked unreal; it did not look like home. Nothing looked like home anymore; not Mexico, not Southern California. The one home he had was his art. Though his mastery of pencil and paper began in the nave of an old country church in Mexico...