Paul Manes

Paul Manes - Tagus, Painting 2006

2006

Paul Manes was born May 4, 1948 in Austin, Texas. He began his professional career in New York City in the early 1980s. His art has been widely exhibited in America and Europe and hi...

Manes has had an extensive career since studying at the Graduate School of Fine Arts, Hunter College (New York) in 1983. Domestically he has shown cross-country, in museums and galle...

Paul Manes was born May 4, 1948 in Austin, Texas. He began his professional career in New York City in the early 1980s. His art has been widely exhibited in America and Europe and hi...

Collection: Multiple Perspectives Artist Statement Having started my career by painting Rembrandt-like portraits of luminous white roses, I credit my discovery of fractals for tran...

Collection: Multiple Perspectives Artist Statement Having started my career by painting Rembrandt-like portraits of luminous white roses, I credit my discovery of fractals for transforming my artistic vision, and changing the direction and force of my work. Always working with a single image of a flower, or a component thereof, I have stripped away the mask of the exterior form and magnified the interior thousands of times to depths beyond what is visible to the naked eye. My subject is no longer simply a flower; it is a dynamical system existing in a chaotic universe filled with energy, turbulence, mystery and beauty. Additionally, I have discovered that the system repeats itself through multiple phenomena. This is where I have taken the literal definition of fractals, and put my creative voice to the principles. Though the non-representational work may suggest a natural likeness - a wing, a wave, a shell, or even a human form - my vision invites a fresh dialogue between aesthetics and science. Whether creating evocative representational images or boldly deceptive non-objective work, my focus is always on the choreography of the movement, the organization of the space, the subtlety in the tonal transitions, and the intricacy of the brushwork. Exclusively painting...

Paul Manes was born May 4, 1948 in Austin, Texas. He began his professional career in New York City in the early 1980s. His art has been widely exhibited in America and Europe and hi...

' Night Scene ' 2005 oil on canvas 76 x 61 cm signed on reverse by artist. Unique work. About the artist : Katherine Russell is a London based Paint...

Change by Lyora Pissarro (b. 1991) Oil on canvas Diameter: 20.3 cm (8 inches) Initialled on the edge, L.P. Signed, titled, and dated 2019 on the reverse This work is part of the ser...

Purple, red, maroon, rust, brown, yellow, orange, white Inspired by the drama of nature and light, Cynthia creates abstracted landscapes with oil on canvas.

"A Vision" is an unframed oil on canvas painting by Joseph Adolphe, depicting an abstracted landscape with a floating sheet. The vibrancy and tense, twisted forms of the sheet held a...

"Evening Tide" is an oil on canvas painting by Eric Abrecht, depicting an abstracted coastal landscape with trees and heavy clouds. This piece is definitive of Abrecht's gestural and...

Simon emphasises the simplicity of form and the contemporary interaction between the light with haunting tone and texture combined with emotion. These are a study of low light observ...