Jose Ricardo Contreras Gonzalez

El Fantasma. From The Light Series

2024

This series of pieces is the result of an investigation into the use of light as a tool for the representation of reality and image creation. Starting in the 40s, the work of the art...

This series of pieces is the result of an investigation into the use of light as a tool for the representation of reality and image creation. Starting in the 40s, the work of the art...

This series of pieces is the result of an investigation into the use of light as a tool for the representation of reality and image creation. Starting in the 40s, the work of the art...

This series of pieces is the result of an investigation into the use of light as a tool for the representation of reality and image creation. Starting in the 40s, the work of the art...

by Sophie Dumont offers an exploration of the convergence between literature and visual arts. The canvas depicts a library with colorful books, painted in oil using a palette knife, ...

The painting "Sweet Dreams" by Sophie Dumont, measuring 31.5 x 31.5 inches (80 x 80 cm), features an abstract composition reminiscent of a bookshelf or folded fabrics. The books are...

Still Life with Mask and Books is an artwork realized by Antonio Sciacca (Catania, 1957) Oil painting on canvas 60x80 cm. Hand signed on the lower and rear Original inscription ...

Still Life is an artwork realized by Ernesto Alcide Campestrini (1897-1983). Oil on Table. cm 50x60; 55 x 66 cm with frame. Hand signed in the lower left margin. Good condition. Alcide Ernesto Campestrini was born in Milan, where the family had moved in 1897. After the first rudiments of art with his father, from 1914 he was a student at the Brera Academy in Milan, under the guidance of Ambrogio Antonio Alciati. In 1919 he resumed his painting studies in Brera, interrupted by enlistment. He concluded them in 1922, the year in which he obtained his teaching qualification. He lived in Milan and in 1923 he exhibited Smiles of other times at the Palazzo della Società per le Belle Arti and Permanent Exhibition: the so-called Brera Biennale, at the following one in 1925, presented with Ultime note and El disperados. In 1926 he exhibited Porta Volta, at the First Art Exhibition of Milanese Artists organized by the Meneghina family, the contemporary Self-Portrait is one of the first works by him that we know so far today. He devoted himself to still life, figure painting and the alpine landscape, the Trentino one in particular, with a technique linked to his father's school and to the late nineteenth-century tradition. He held several personal exhibitions in Milan. The Campestrini family spends their holidays in Valsugana several times, sometimes as guests of Emma Campestrini's relatives. The painter falls in love with Lake Caldonazzo, depicted several times in his canvases, such as in the 1949 painting...