Anthony Mastromatteo

"The Painting, As Seen by the Wall" an oil painting of a canvas, framed backward

2023

In the trompe l'oeil panel painting, "Wonder, or the Plane of the Invisible," a comic cut-out of Wonder Woman sits between two spatial planes—the top, very flat plane is cut out in the shape of a plane as a play Wonder Woman's famous "Invisible Plane." The silly way the comic book character would sit in an imaginary seat flying through the air would force the artist to wonder, “how do you represent an invisible plane”. Here, we see a bright blue canvas, sprinkled with glittery paillettes; an outline of an airplane beneath an outline of the word “SKY”, an infantile depiction of the sun made of masking tape, and finally, the hero, Wonder Woman, her comic clipping taped onto the invisible plane. A very believable, naturalist blue sky with puffy white clouds is visible through the letters and the invisible airplane. It feels like we can reach into the invisible plane to find the natural world…yet atop the plane is an old cartoon of the first female superhero. She overlaps the realistic atmosphere, and even casts a shadow onto it. The planet’s orbit is dedicated to the sun, and all living things need the light to survive…yet this most important element is made up of a crude array of tape strips, asymmetrical, and even torn in-half. This sun refers back to Pablo Picasso’s sun...

"Nasturtium, Diptych" is an abstract diptych painting of two potted plants. On the lefthand canvas the background is painted a thin hookers green and resin was poured over the top. The potted flower is painted over the resin, sitting on a white stippled table with a thick yellow edge. Yellow stipples are painted around the plant. The righthand painting has intentionally exposed canvas soft smudges of green paint through the middle of the canvas and navy up in the upper lefthand corner, at the middle of the composition. A heavy impasto flower...

"Purple Falling Flowers' is abstract painting of flowers and vines over a pale teal and tan background. Bright green stems tangle together as if the flowe...

An oil painting by American Expressionist painter Darius Yektai. In his signature thick application of paint, Yektai molds a vase of flowers atop a simple footstool in primary colors...

Vintage American modernist abstract oil painting by Mark DiVincenzo. Oil on canvas, circa 2005. Signed verso. Unframed.

This stylish abstract cubist oil on board painting with a monogram signature "M.J." is from a German artist (20th Century). The colorful painting features a stylized abstract composi...

Impressive post-cubist and colorist still life oil on board painting by A. Rigollot (France, 20th Century). Colorist painting is characterized by intense color use, which becomes the...

This mesmerizing post-cubist and colorist abstract oil on board painting was designed by A. Rigollot (France, 20th Century). Colorist paintings are characterized by intense color use...