Wood Panel Portrait Paintings

Nails and thread on wooden panel. The work comes in a plexiglass box. In his latest body of work, the Dutch artist Nemo Jantzen is combining skills obtained in the earlier years of ...

Nails and thread on wooden panel. The work comes in a plexiglass box. In his latest body of work, the Dutch artist Nemo Jantzen is combining skills obtained in the earlier years of ...

Unique glass spheres are arranged to create a colorful portrait of a young woman. The light reflects off the glass spheres, creating a dynamic interplay. Fashion, haute couture, bra...

The medium of choice for Do Byung-Kyu, born in Cheonan, Korea, is dolls: they are both his conceptions and his physical expression. At the same time dolls are also the perfect tool for communicating the artist’s inner self. Expressing himself by means of dolls liberates Do from the restrictions of the mundane world. By embodying in the form of dolls his actions and thoughts, dreams and desires, and even the instincts lying in the depths of the subconscious, he transcends the secular boundaries. Dolls are his alter ego, his other self that he can construct precisely the way he wants. Sublimating the experiences and memories from his youth into various subjects of desire, Do uses dolls to paint a descriptive picture of the ambiguous feelings of contradictions from his childhood when he would abuse and kill a plaything, for example a frog, then bury the body in solemn mourning over its death. These sexual or violent games from his childhood are not likely to be limited to Do’s experiences alone. Most of us can vaguely remember indulging in sadistic acts of sexual love against a doll. Rising above a child’s simple curiosity, it is an intuitive game of the senses we play by ourselves. In a number of Do’s paintings, sticky liquid can be observed dripping down a doll’s face. This brings back recollections of the life inside our mothers’ womb where we were also enveloped by mucous waters, like the amniotic fluid. It refuses contact with the anything, and nothing wants to touch it either. The shape of such a mucous liquid is a protective layer sheltering the intrinsic identity and desires of man. It is also a substitution that satisfies the ego’s instincts otherwise suppressed by social norms. The dolls’ eyes...

Nails and thread on wooden panel. The work comes in a plexiglass box. In his latest body of work, the Dutch artist Nemo Jantzen is combining skills obtained in the earlier years of ...

Oil painting on Board realized by Balla as portrait of his second daughter Elica. A beautiful, top quality portrait among the most beautiful of his figurative painting. It includes an original contemporary wooden frame designed and colored by Balla himself (he used to often produce himself the frames for his works). Signed on top left "BALLA" in capital letters. Giacomo Balla (Turin, 1871 - Rome, 1958) Giacomo Balla was born in Turin in 1871. Since he was a young boy, when he begins to attend the Albertina Academy, he dedicates his studies to the violin and painting. His first artistic accomplishment dates back to 1894, a self-portrait. In 1895 Balla moves to Rome with his mother and then in 1900 he moves to Paris for several months. His early years as a painter indicate an interest in the divisionist paintings of Pellizza da Volpedo...