John Tarantola

"Raven Moon" (2014) By John Tarantola, Surrealistic Nude Portrait Oil Painting

2014

John Tarantola's original nude portrait "Blake of Night" (2012) is a beautiful surrealist oil on panel painting that depicts an athletic nude male figure crawling forward on a slab o...

John Tarantola's original nude portrait "The Embrace" (2015) is a beautiful surrealist oil on panel painting that depicts an athletic nude male figure embracing the bright silhouette...

John Tarantola's original nude portrait "The Cruel Hours and Minutes of Uncertainty" (2019) is a surrealist oil on panel painting that depicts an athletic nude male figure, standing ...

John Tarantola's original nude portrait "The Oracle of Time" (ca. 2016) is a beautiful surrealist painting done with oil on panel, which depicts a nude male figure posing with a roma...

David Cheifetz's "Supplicant" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a nude woman with horns resting her head gently on a nude woman's knees, the fleshy tones of her face...

The night is coming. 2011, oil on canvas, 50x35 cm Three women with the moon Kristine Kvitka (1983) Kristine Kvitka is a Latvian artist, born in Riga in 1983, currently lives and w...

Oil on canvas Ships from Netherlands We are pleased to sell works on behalf of Guusje Bertholet. Guusje is an extremely talented, Dutch artist specialising in portrait painting. He...

Part of Daniela Astone's series of figures in different ethereal and surrealistic spaces. "The Kiss" brings to mind Gustav Klimt's famous 1908 painting of the same name but instead of an abstracted gold background, Astone creates a mysterious creature enveloping and suspending the figure in mid-air. The dark monster looks ominous until you notice the nude figure leaning into her partner, her hands lightly caressing or leaning on the the amorphous creature. Her body is relaxed and her eyes closed. As a classical artist who paints the nude figure everyday, Astone is masterful at depicting women at ease in their natural bodies rather than women self-conscious of their nudity—posing but fearful of exploitation at the same time—a theme in art history that continues today. Some of the sweeping strokes of black are inspired by Japanese paintings techniques, and on the lighter areas there are rain drop falling from a blue-grey cloud in the background. 52.8 x 44.9 inches framed Artist Bio Daniela Astone was born in Pisa, Italy, in 1980 and raised in Porto Santo Stefano...