Rick Matear

couta boats from front, Painting, Oil on Other

2016

'Silent Exultation' Oil on Canvas, 23x22â€

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder. The sea, the island, a woman waiting with a view of the open sea. Time goes by faster in watching the beauty ...

The sky and the water came out well. It's a version of 'after storm' A tonal painting. I like the seagull on the sand in the right. :: Painting :: Pre-Raphaelite :: This piece co...

My partner suggested I put the boat in the painting as the painting would tell a story. A picture that may not have changed in the last thousand years. :: Painting :: Pre-Raphael...

SALE ONE WEEK ONLY In “My Best Friend” Girard has captured a tender symbiotic relationship between the woman and her sweet pet. The entire piece swirls with the soft beauty and magical exchange shared by the two individuals. The frame does not enclose so much as enfolds the scene and its decorations are an integral part of the work. Upon close inspection tiny animal figures cavort in the air adding to the spell - almost like fairy characters from Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer’s Night Dream.” The jewelry is beautifully render as are the loving expressions of the faces of both the animal and the woman. The composition is filled with objects and figures but captured softly and in rich detail. The figures appear to be completely self-absorbed and the decorative elements about their heads could suggest the intensity of their thoughts and feelings. Girard was a Detroit figurative painter and teacher at College for Creative Studies, Detroit, Michigan where he taught for 30 years. Other College for Creative Studies (formerly Center for Creative Studies) faculty and graduates include Richard Jerzy, Harry Bertoia, Doug Chaing (currently director of Lucas Film), Stephen Dinehart (game maker, writer, designer connected with The David Lynch Foundation), Tyree Guyton (international artist), Herb Babcock, Jerome Feretti, Kevin Siembieda (writer, designer and publisher of role-playing games), Renee Radell, Philip Pearlstein, Charles McGee (nationally recognized African American sculptor of animal and dancing spirits), Philip Pearlstein (2000 Honorary Doctorate, Modern Realism style), and John Louis Krieger...

The golden-red glow of the autumnal sun illuminates this countryside scene by British painter John Atkinson Grimshaw. Showcasing the celebrated painter’s mastery of light and atmosph...

This superb 1913 late Pre-Raphaelite spring landscape oil painting is by noted Birmingham artist Edward Steel Harper Junior. The title, Life Kindled from a Fiery Birth is from Swinbu...

Vicente Mulet y Claver 1897 – Valencia – 1945 Spanish Painter 'Gathering fruit and flowers' Signature: signed lower right 'V Mulet' and with the artist's monogram, circa 1930 Mediu...