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Cocktails 8 different paintings. Sold Separately , soft pop art, Realism
Located in Houston, TX
The photo shows the varios Cocktail paintings available. The price is for each individual painting NOT for the set of paintings.
Artist's Statement: I am an American Representational artist and my Realism paintings exhibit strong graphic design and Pop art influences. My original Cocktails glass series represents a significant transitional period for me. This is where I played with a sort of softer Pop art style that shows my Realism paintings. My work as a whole is truly about harmony, movement and it wants to heard and seen loud and clear. All of the paintings are 14 x 11 except Cucumber Infused Gin is 12 x 9. Bottom left.
Born in 1963, Miller Lives in East Hampton, NY and although primarily a self taught painter he studied at the Fashion Institute, and Painting at The School of Visual Arts in New York City. He learned his sense of composition while working as the Photographer’s assistant to Ken Haak...
Category
2010s American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Ritual" Oil Painting
By Mia Bergeron
Located in Denver, CO
Mia Bergeron's (US based) "Ritual" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts the glow of a lit candle glowing red against a dark background.
Mia Bergeron's interest in art...
Category
2010s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Wax, Oil, Panel
Two Kisses, colorful super realistic candy oil painting
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Two Hershey Chocolate Almond Kisses wrapped in gold foil with design imprints. The artist was inspired to paint them by the complex reflections in the wrappers. Part of a series of paintings of candy...
Category
2010s Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"The Magnificent Seven" Aaron Bohrod, Pun Humor, Magic Realism, Numbers, Text
By Aaron Bohrod
Located in New York, NY
Aaron Bohrod
The Magnificent Seven, 1990
Signed lower right
Oil on gesso panel
11 x 14 inches
Aaron Bohrod's work has not been limited to one style or medium. Initially recognized as a regionalist painter of American scenes, particularly of his native Chicago, Bohrod later devoted himself to detailed still-life paintings rendered in the trompe l'oeil style. He also worked for several years in ceramics and wrote a book on pottery.
Born in 1907, Bohrod began his studies at Chicago's Crane Junior College in 1925, and two years later enrolled in the Art Institute of Chicago. But it was at the Art Students League in New York City, from 1930 to 1932, that he studied under the man believed to be his most significant early influence, John Sloan. Sloan's romantic realism is reflected in the many depictions of Chicago life...
Category
1990s Realist Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
"The Egg and I" Aaron Bohrod, Pun Humor, Yiddish Joke, Realism
By Aaron Bohrod
Located in New York, NY
Aaron Bohrod
The Egg and I, 1991
Signed lower right
Oil on gesso board
11 x 14 inches
Aaron Bohrod's work has not been limited to one style or medium. Initially recognized as a regi...
Category
1990s Realist Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
He Was So in Need of Botany, bright colors, domestic, Latin objects
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Price and size includes frames (maple wood with white mats).
Artwork 58" x 38"
Her pastel-on-sandpaper series, "Domestic Threats" and "Black Paintings", both use cultural objects as surrogates for human beings acting in mysterious, highly charged narratives.[9][10]
Rachko also has created a series of photographs entitled "Gods and Monsters".[11] In these chromogenic prints, she is "painting with a camera," creating variations that free the camera from being a mechanical recording device of what lies before it. She prints all of these images by hand.
The earlier "Domestic Threats" pastel-on-sandpaper paintings used her West Village apartment or her 1932 Sears house in Virginia as a backdrop. The "Black Paintings" series grew directly from "Domestic Threats". In the "Black Paintings," the figures (actors) take center stage. All background details, furniture, rugs, etc. have been eliminated and replaced by intense dark black pastel. Each painting takes months to complete as she slowly builds up as many as 30 layers of soft pastel.
Her long-standing fascination with traditional masks progressed in the spring of 2017 when she visited the National Museum of Ethnography and Folklore in La Paz, Bolivia where one exhibition included more than fifty festival masks. The resulting series is entitled “Bolivianos”.[12]
She has also written an e-book, From Pilot to Painter[13] and writes a regular blog, Barbara Rachko...
Category
Early 2000s Fauvist Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
"Alas, Again (Self Portrait in Absentia)" - surrealist portriat, bird, pattern
By Guy Robinson
Located in Atlanta, GA
This painting features hues of green, purple and yellow.
Guy Robinson is inspired by the work of Paul Klee, Albrecht Durer and Giuseppe Arcimboldo.
Guy Robinson is an Atlanta-based...
Category
2010s Surrealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Guitarist
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
the painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
1960s Expressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Oscar by Shelly Madruga, Contemporary Artwork Portrait
Located in Atlanta, GA
'Oscar' by Shelly Madruga is a character-rich portrait rendered in oil on canvas. Measuring 7 x 5 in, this piece showcases the artist's distinctive style and command of composition. ...
Category
2010s Abstract Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Ladrillo" (FRAMED) Painting 20.5" x 21" inch by Antonio Pelayo
Located in Culver City, CA
"Ladrillo" (FRAMED) Painting 20.5" x 21" inch by Antonio Pelayo
Medium: Pencil on Paper. Acrylic Ink & Paint on Animation Acetate
Image size: 15" x 1...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Water...
Materials
Ink, Acrylic
Floral I
Located in New Orleans, LA
Michael Tole is a figurative painter currently living in Tempe, AZ with his wife and daughters. A Texas native, most of his 20 year long career was spent in Dallas. After relocating to Tempe, his work experienced a significant shift from photo-based paintings of retail interiors to fantastical figurative inventions based on pop culture imagery he has encountered via his two daughters’ taste in music videos, and his proximity to Southern California and it’s particular brand of Disney-esque hedonism. Mr. Tole’s career includes shows in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Dallas, and Miami. His work has been reviewed in Art Forum International...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
"Diospero" realist oil painting, persimmon tree in full bloom, Tuscan landscape
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
An oil painting on brass. Melissa Franklin Sanchez often uses her immediate surroundings in Tuscany for inspiration. This persimmon tree in her backyard is a subject she often comes ...
Category
2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Brass
Progress #3
By June Glasson
Located in Bozeman, MT
June Glasson is an artist, illustrator, and designer. She lives in New York. Her paintings have been exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery in London, Nature Morte Gallery in Ber...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Acrylic, Pencil
A Late Dinner, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Late evening, rose wine in two glasses and a laughing Roast Dorada on the table by Walter Knoll... :: Painting :: Contemporary :: This piece comes with an official certificate of aut...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Garden Ornament I
Located in Fairfield, CT
ARTIST STATEMENT:
I choose subjects that interest me intuitively or that I am drawn to, or that I admire; and I concentrate on the details and slightest variations in color and ligh...
Category
2010s Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
"Fear 1" Figurative Painting 15" x 15" inch by Ahmed Saber
By Ahmed Saber
Located in Culver City, CA
"Fear 1" Figurative Painting 15" x 15" inch by Ahmed Saber
Color Pencil and Acrylic on Paper.
AHMED SABER - BIO
Ahmed Saber is an Egyptian artist bas...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Symbolist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic, Color Pencil
Waking Giant, 2016
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Christina Weaver grew up in Birmingham, Alabama. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 2012, and a Master’s Degree in Painting from I...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Space Traffic
Located in Boca Raton, FL
OPAC, the Organization of Photorealist Artists and Collectors, presents Cesar Santander Space Traffic Original Oil Painting
18" x 24" original painting on board.
This is a unique,...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Echoes of Eden
Located in Red Bank, NJ
Through the transformative medium of portraiture and symbolism, I explore the entirety of the human experience. I seek to bridge the chasm between the inner darkness within us a...
Category
20th Century Conceptual Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
French Contemporary Art by Claudine Picard - Manequins
Located in Paris, IDF
Claudine Picard is a French artist born in 1949 who lives & works in Sainte Marie, France. She is graduated from the Ecole Nationale des Arts Décoratifs in 1973 (ENSAD).
Category
2010s Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Serge CHEKHONIN (1878-1936), “Enchanted Castle”
Located in Paris, FR
In a 1929 article of a french newspaper "L'Homme libre," Serge Chekhonin is described as having a prestige comparable to that of Bakst or Benois. He is praised for his talent as a de...
Category
Early 20th Century Constructivist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
"Dried Flowers in Raku Vase", Oil painting by Kevin Knopp in artist made frame
By Kevin Knopp
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Dried Flowers in Raku Vase" is an original oil painting by the Wisconsin-based artist Kevin Knopp. Known for his lyrical landscapes and sensitive still life, influenced by what the ...
Category
2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Compo
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented By George Billis Gallery. As the practitioner of a non-verbal art, Jarvis Wilcox’s first objective is to intrigue the viewer into spending enough time with the painting t...
Category
2010s Still-life Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
$24,000 Sale Price
20% Off
The Brits, Original Contemporary Figurative Still Life Oil Painting on Canvas
Located in Boston, MA
The Brits, Original Contemporary Figurative Still Life Painting, 2014
36" x 48" x 1.5" (HxWxD) Oil on Canvas
Artist Benjamin Ferry utilizes highlight a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Brian Oxley (b.1943) - 2000 Oil, Still Life of Indigenous Objects
Located in Corsham, GB
A delightful still life study capturing an assortment of indigenous objects placed on a windowsill. The artist captures the scene in bright colours and an expressive style, paying pa...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
$504 Sale Price
20% Off
"Lavate Los Dientes" (FRAMED) Painting 21" x 20.5" inch by Antonio Pelayo
Located in Culver City, CA
"Lavate Los Dientes" (FRAMED) Painting 21" x 20.5" inch by Antonio Pelayo
Medium: Pencil on Paper. Acrylic Ink & Paint on Animation Acetate
Image siz...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Water...
Materials
Ink, Acrylic
Moondance, Original Pastel Landscape Painting on Board, 2021
By Dina Gardner
Located in Boston, MA
Original Pastel Landscape Painting on Board
12" x 9" (HxW)
This moody landscape painting features a set of tropical palm trees glowing under the moonlight of a deep blue desert sky.
Artist Commentary:
I think the moon is pretty magical and I love watching...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Board
Blue flowers. Lamp (double-sided) 1991, watercolor on paper, 73x53 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Blue flowers. Lamp (double-sided) . 1991, watercolor on paper, 73x53 cm
With edge defects
Jekabs Arturs Springis
(1907– 2004) Painter, Latvia
1924 – 1927 – he learned at Aizpute ...
Category
1990s Impressionist Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Orange Under Wraps
Located in Greenwich, CT
American, b. 1948
What is “sharp focus” drawing? Put very simply, it is a rendering with refined, precise line and tone to create a lifelike representation of the subject matter. It...
Category
2010s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Rough Rider
By Brad Overton
Located in Park City, UT
"I have always loved the patina of old toys, wagons, cars. I love the look of time and timelessness. A thing never becomes really beautiful until it is washed by use and attention. I...
Category
2010s Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$18,880
The World Awaits / MGM Grand Invitation (De La Hoya vs. Mayweather)
Located in Aventura, FL
Hand embellished with oil paint on silkscreen canvas. Hand signed on front by Steve Kaufman and numbered on verso. From the edition of 500. Canvas is stretched.
Artwork is in exc...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Screen
$665 Sale Price
30% Off
Pots, Magma n°119, Acrylic & Pigment on canvas, Black, Brown, Black "In Stock"
By Madhu Basu
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Madhu Basu - Magma n°119 - 25.75 X 21.25 inches (unframed size)
Acrylic & Pigment on canvas
Inclusive of shipment in roll form.
Style : The pigment technique is today the essent...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Pigment
Pots- Universe, Acrylic & Pigment on Canvas, Black, White, Grey Color "In Stock"
By Madhu Basu
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Madhu Basu - Magma n°235 - 25.75 X 21.25 inches (unframed size)
Acrylic & Pigment on canvas
Inclusive of shipment in roll form.
Vessels and pots being of importance in Madhu Bas...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Pigment, Charcoal
Barney Fife
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
This picture took several turns trying to decide how and what the photograph on the wall would eventually be. I tried several different variations before I finally settled on the image that eventually drove the title and subject matter of the piece. Had a lot of fun amping up the color palette.
Keywords: toy, still life, wallpaper, girl, boy, fun, happy, growth, childhood, kids
Artist Biography:
Ben Ferry is a former high school and college all-American soccer player who grew up in Washington, D.C.. After being drafted by "D.C. United", he played professionally for three years before a major spinal injury forced him to retire. In his work, Ben focuses on the human figure, landscapes, cityscapes, and animals in a variety of media and styles. His paintings are vibrant, playful and unconventional, often featuring bright, saturated color and imaginative subject matter. Ben received both his B.A. and M.F.A. in painting and drawing from George Washington University and still lives in D.C., where he teaches painting and drawing at Georgetown University and George Mason...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Magma 115, Utensils, Still Life Painting, Acrylic & Pigment on canvas "In Stock"
By Madhu Basu
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Madhu Basu - Magma 115 - 45.25 X 32 inches (unframed size)
Acrylic and Pigment on canvas
Inclusive of shipment in roll form.
Style : The pigment technique is today the essential...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Pigment
Fresh Supply
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A painting by Gregory Sumida. “Fresh Supply” is a landscape painting, watercolor on paper in an earth-tone palette by American artist Gregory Sumida. The artwork is signed in the low...
Category
Mid-20th Century Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Little Fourteen Year Old Dancer straight on
Located in Fairfield, CT
A CLOSER LOOK: OBSERVATIONS NOT FAR FROM HOME
I have always addressed the details of physical reality in the subjects I choose in order to convey the spirit and feelings that were fi...
Category
2010s Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
The Creation of Adam -- Original Oil Painting -- Please watch attached video
By J. Scott Nicol
Located in Boca Raton, FL
Please see the accompanying video. We are a 1stdibs Platinum Seller with 100% 5-star reviews.
One cannot appreciate this painting on a computer screen; in real life, it is absolute...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Flutist and Mandolin Player. 2016. Oil on canvas, 64x70 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Flutist and Mandolin Player. 2015. Oil on canvas, 64x70 cm
from series Playing Angels
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$9,040 Sale Price
20% Off
Superhero
Located in Boca Raton, FL
OPAC, the Organization of Photorealist Artists and Collectors, presents Cesar Santander's Superhero Original Oil Painting -- Please watch video in listing
16" x 20" original painting...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Saxophonist. 2021. Oil on canvas, 80x60cm
Located in Riga, LV
Saxophonist. 2021. Oil on canvas, 80x60cm
Nugzar Avtandilovich Kahiani was born in Poti, Georgia in 1952. He studied at the Art College named after Nikoladze. Then he went to serve in the Soviet Army from1970 to 1972. After completing his military service he entered the Stieglitz St. Petersburg State Academy of Art and Industry at the faculty of artistic metal, from which he graduated in 1986. During his studies, he has been actively engaged in painting. His favorite artists are Gauguin, El Greco, Botticelli, Turner and Picasso.
Works of artistic stone
He worked also with stone, cornelian and onyx. But his soul gravitated to bright and blustery color, and so he has became engaged in painting. At first his paintings were quiet, with muted tonal gamma. The color image was built on the play of hues and halftones. Such a careful elaboration of color educates the taste, sharpness and delicacy of vision. Gradually, the painter became more experienced, and his paintings acquired assurance and power of maturity, blooming in colorful brilliancy.
Nugzar's color preferences
The color of Nugzar’s paintings is deep and multi-layered. It is woven of infinite number of hues and filled with light. At first sight it may be difficult to recognize the shapes in the play of flickering color dabs. The figures appear gradually, they draw the first breath just before our eyes, crystallizing from the color heap. The painter is attracted by major tonality and motives that years ago could be called “the gallant feasts” - repasts, assiduities, music parties, and airings. After somewhat daemonic, infernal imagery of early paintings, it has appeared the theme of “Le joie de vivre,” the joy of life.
Source of inspiration
Born in the ancient Kolkhida, he keeps the blissful pagan feel of entirety and completeness of being. It is embodied almost literally in his favorite personage auroral gorgeous-bodied beauty of a girl. He grants these forms even to Olympian inhabitants - Aphrodite, Athene, Arthemide, let alone the Bacchants. I remember unwittingly that Niko Pirosmani similarly painted on his impoverished buckrams the luxurious prince repasts and languid, elephantine beauties.
Working style
But his style is not bounded by grotesque parody, as well as the irony is not the only aspect of his world outlook. In his landscapes we can catch the ecstatic admiration with Nature. In contradistinction to his favorite impressionists, he never paints from nature and never bears in mind the particular place. It is just a blooming Earth, studied very closely, so that the trees are cut by the edges of the painting, and at the same time it is a bird’s eye view revealing infinite, boundless spaces. Nougzar says that the landscape for him is first of all a color ensemble. He can just leaf through the illustrated journal, nourishing his eye with color in various combinations, and so get the impulse to create a ‘physical’ landscape image. Probably, his landscapes are no less fantastical than his figure compositions, but such is his talent, his mission - to make the world more beautiful and gentle than it is in reality.
Exhibitions
Nugzar Kakhiani is a matured and recognized master, as follows from the long list of his exhibitions and countries where his works reside.
1987 - Exhibition of Georgian Artists in the Museum of Ethnography, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
1989 - Exhibition of Artists of Leningrad-Lenexpo, Russia
1990 - Exhibition of Van Gogh's memory, "Palette" , Russia
1991 - Exhibition Gallery Palette
1991 - Festival of Leningrad galleries in Manege, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
1992 - Exhibition at Gallery Pinatin, Berlin.
1993 - Exhibition of Piraeus, Athens, Greece.
1993 - Exhibition Gallery 47...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,713 Sale Price
20% Off
Fiddler - Original Oil Painting by Famed Photorealist Mark Schiff
By Mark Schiff
Located in Boca Raton, FL
Fiddler -- Original Oil Painting by Renowned Artist Mark Schiff
26" x 32" Oil on Linen Original Painting from the Tropicana collection.
This is a unique, original painting of which no copies have been made of any sort.
One cannot appreciate this painting on a computer screen; in real life, it is absolutely amazing.
About Mark Schiff -- Animated by photographs that reflect his personal life, Mark Schiff’s paintings are fueled by what makes him happy. Through his open touch and signature blending method, he lends his artistic perception to the original photographic compositions captured on his Leica. Mark’s creative vision has been alive since he was a boy. As a child he spent his summers observing life as he rode the trolley back and forth to art classes at the Pratt Institute. During his future travels to Europe, Mark’s eye for light and photography merged with his passion for painting at the Jeu de Paume in Paris; which triggered his career in photorealism. Mark is well known for painting objects that people can identify and emotionally connect with. His work is distinctly marked by a rich palette and the luminous range of light he paints into his compositions. Each painting is a true extension of his vision and can take up to 200 hours to complete. Mark Schiff’s work has been commissioned by the well-known brands The Hershey Company and Tropicana. His private collectors include A-list celebrities and also corporate collectors in the US and abroad. Possessing a strong philanthropic nature, Mark donates both his time and works to charitable organizations such as Big Brothers Big Sisters, The Ronald McDonald House, Make-A-Wish Foundation, The Humane Society and the Special Olympics...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$800 Sale Price
55% Off
Still Life with Cubes
Located in Germantown, NY
Stuart Bigley is an artist based in New York’s beautiful Hudson Valley. He has been making and showing his artwork for over 40 years. During this time he also co-founded and ran th...
Category
1970s Still-life Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Paper
Still Ten Cents
Located in Fairfield, CT
After a long, successful career with the Eastman Kodak Company as a photojournalist and editorial photographer, Emile Dillon returned to painting in 1998. As a photographer he traveled the United States, Mexico, the Caribbean, and Europe. While he’d chosen the camera for his profession, he’d grown up with oil on canvas. His grandfather was the Harlem Renaissance painter Frank Joseph Dillon and a favorite uncle was the Latin American artist Felix Vargas.
Dillon’s years behind the camera and days in Soho galleries inspired him to pursue Photorealism as a style. But instead of the landscape of the exotic which he’d experienced in his Kodak travels, he was fascinated by the humble diners, motels, and vintage signs which were vanishing from American towns and cities. To perfect his craft, he studied at the School of Visual Arts and the Art Students League in New York.
In an article on his work in the July 2019 issue of American Art Collector magazine, Dillon comments on his subject matter. “Somebody’s got to save these things…These places may not exist anymore in the next 100 years.”
Dillon’s favorite painting in this exhibition is Dunkin Donuts...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Forever Young
By Arno Elias
Located in Atlanta, GA
Born in Paris France, Arno Elias is a French American Artist, Painter, Photographer, Musician and Activist. He is best known for his hand-painted, hand-embellished photographs of end...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
$15,600
Scene Fourteen: Kitchen, bright colors, domestic, Latin objects
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Price and size includes frames (maple wood with white mats).
Artwork 58" x 38"
Her pastel-on-sandpaper series, "Domestic Threats" and "Black Paintings", both use cultural objects as surrogates for human beings acting in mysterious, highly charged narratives.[9][10]
Rachko also has created a series of photographs entitled "Gods and Monsters".[11] In these chromogenic prints, she is "painting with a camera," creating variations that free the camera from being a mechanical recording device of what lies before it. She prints all of these images by hand.
The earlier "Domestic Threats" pastel-on-sandpaper paintings used her West Village apartment or her 1932 Sears house in Virginia as a backdrop. The "Black Paintings" series grew directly from "Domestic Threats". In the "Black Paintings," the figures (actors) take center stage. All background details, furniture, rugs, etc. have been eliminated and replaced by intense dark black pastel. Each painting takes months to complete as she slowly builds up as many as 30 layers of soft pastel.
Her long-standing fascination with traditional masks progressed in the spring of 2017 when she visited the National Museum of Ethnography and Folklore in La Paz, Bolivia where one exhibition included more than fifty festival masks. The resulting series is entitled “Bolivianos”.[12]
She has also written an e-book, From Pilot to Painter[13] and writes a regular blog, Barbara Rachko...
Category
2010s Folk Art Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
Progress #1
By June Glasson
Located in Bozeman, MT
June Glasson is an artist, illustrator, and designer. She lives in New York. Her paintings have been exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery in London, Nature Morte Gallery in Ber...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Acrylic, Pencil
Ambrose Park
Located in Bristol, CT
Classic pastel illustration by Clair Forster c1955 depicting 'Ambrose Park', a 'big shot' from the capital
Art Sz: 14"H x 18 3/4"W
Frame Sz: 19 1/2"H x...
Category
1950s Still-life Paintings
Materials
Pastel
BODY BUILDERS - Contemporary Still Life / Toys / Realism / Humor
Located in New York, NY
Original Oil Painting by Elizabeth McGhee
Elizabeth McGhee (b. 1985, Southern California) completed her BFA in 2009 at the Laguna College of Art and Design, Laguna Beach, CA. She co...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
'Dried Flowers in Raku Vase' Oil on Canvas
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Dried Flowers in Raku Vase" is an original oil painting by the Wisconsin-based artist Kevin Knopp. Known for his lyrical landscapes and sensitive still life, influenced by what the ...
Category
2010s Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Aphroditus" -- Painting on Canvas by Robert Minervini
Located in New Orleans, LA
Robert Minervini’s practice encompasses painting, printmaking, mural painting, and site specific public artworks.
His work examines an evolving relationship between nature and cult...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
The Walking Spaceman
Located in New York, NY
Homage to the Toys of the past. Oil on canvas. Vibrant colors. Evokes great memories.
About The Artist:
D’Avino cultivated his life-long interest in Art at the State Univers...
Category
2010s Conceptual Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Rise and Shine Pinkies
By Ayse Wilson
Located in Westport, CT
Ayse Wilson is a Turkish-American artist who lives and lives and works in Connecticut. Her work draws from memory and emotion to remind viewers of youth, innocence and the timeless space we occupy when we are young.
Wilson graduated from Wellesley College...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Well-Traveled
By David Brega
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signed Lower Right
Category
20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
$45,000
Green Dream
Located in Miami, FL
In the mysterious dance of green shades, where darkness intertwines with light, the "Green Dream" is born. This canvas is like a dream in the depths of a forest kingdom, where each i...
Category
2010s Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
"L'Abondance", Jean-Claude Gaugy, Oil on Board, French, Contemporary, Still Life
Located in Dallas, TX
"L'Abondance" is an original oil on board painting that measures 30x40 inches and comes unframed. Roughly translated to "abundance", this piece exhibits an arrangement of flowers, fr...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Skull, Original Signed Contemporary Black and Green Acrylic Painting on Canvas
Located in Boston, MA
Skull, Original Signed Contemporary Black and Green Painting
18" x 18" x 0.75" (HxWxD) Acrylic on Canvas
Hand-signed by the artist. Finished with a gloss varnish.
A black background allows the subject matter of this acrylic painting by artist Lindsay Hall, a human skull, to both pop forward and recede into the background. There is an amount of chiaroscuro happening on the left side of the skull, keeping it in shadow, falling into the depths. An item in a cabinet of curiosities, this memento mori work serves as a pausing point to sit and reflect on one's own mortality. The green tones to the white of the skull give this work an interesting dimensionality to it, almost imbuing it with life, ironically. The black background is reminiscent of artists like Caravaggio and the subject matter is highly reminiscent of Van Gogh's Skull of a Skeleton with a Burning Cigarette.
Artist Commentary:
I painted this when I lived in Richmond, VA above an oddities shop. Being in such close proximity to various curiosities like taxidermied animals, preserved animal organs, coffins, and the like definitely kept my mind in the spooky mood all year round. The building itself was black and had a giant grim reaper...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Little Fourteen Year Old Dancer right side profile
Located in Fairfield, CT
A CLOSER LOOK: OBSERVATIONS NOT FAR FROM HOME
I have always addressed the details of physical reality in the subjects I choose in order to convey the spirit and feelings that were fi...
Category
2010s Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Little Fourteen Year Old Dancer 3/4 view
Located in Fairfield, CT
A CLOSER LOOK: OBSERVATIONS NOT FAR FROM HOME
I have always addressed the details of physical reality in the subjects I choose in order to convey the spirit and feelings that were fi...
Category
2010s Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
The Last Narcissus
By Stephen Hall
Located in New York, NY
Conceptual. Acrylic on canvas.
About the Artist:
Born in Aberdeen, Scotland, Stephen Hall moved to New York in 1978 and began exhibiting his work in the East Village in the earl...
Category
2010s Conceptual Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic