Eric Forstmann

Group Envy

2023

One of America's most important realist painters, Eric Forstmann's work is proudly held in many public & private collections, such as the Rauschenberg Foundation, Aurelius Capital Ma...

One of America's most important realist painters, Eric Forstmann's work is proudly held in many public & private collections, such as the Rauschenberg Foundation, Aurelius Capital Ma...

One of America's most important realist painters, Eric Forstmann's work is proudly held in many public & private collections, such as the Rauschenberg Foundation, Aurelius Capital Ma...

oil on panel

a beautiful still life painting of an apple on a white table cloth by the artist Eric Forstmann

A still life painting featuring a red onion on a white table cloth by Eric Forstmann

Behold this enchanting vintage still life oil painting on wood, a composition that harmoniously blends elements of nature and artistry. The canvas comes alive with the timeless charm...

oil on panel My current body of work is an investigation of the relationship between the tangible and intangible moments in the context of everyday life experience; where the tangi...

oil on panel My current body of work is an investigation of the relationship between the tangible and intangible moments in the context of everyday life experience; where the tangi...

A Still Life with Sparrow and Grapes Artist 19th century European School Signature: Verso signed and dated 1883 Medium: Oil on panel Dimensions: Image size 23 x 18 cm, frame size 3...

Floating World no. 6 'Adrift' - a single feather, original painting created with oil on wood by Susan Manchester. 8 x 8 inches. Professionally framed ...

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...