Matthew Alfonso Durante Paintings

Reclining Expressionist Nude Female Figure with Yellow, Blue, and Magenta Brightly colored expressionist nude figurative painting of a reclining nude female with bold yellow, blue, ...

Title Seated Female Nude Purple Interior French Modernist Acrylic Painting Artist Jacqueline Boisselot French late 20th century Medium Acrylic and graphite pencil on artist paper unf...

Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA --A walk through any major museum will reveal paintings that depict or legitimate only certain kinds of experience. Despite the good intentions of critical theorists questioning the validity of the canon, paintings of the old masters on the walls of museums like the Met, the Louvre, Rijks museum still have a certain cache. They're revered not just for their technique but because they enshrine our collective past experience. Of course, it's a selected past that gets validated. Conspicuously absent to me as a gay man...

A walk through any major museum will reveal paintings that depict or legitimate only certain kinds of experience. Despite the good intentions of critical theorists questioning the va...

This striking, contemporary painting invites the viewer into a space of quiet mystery and irony. A young woman with auburn hair, dressed in a dark, structured dress, stands confide...

A walk through any major museum will reveal paintings that depict or legitimate only certain kinds of experience. Despite the good intentions of critical theorists questioning the va...

"10:45 am" is an acrylic painting on canvas created from life and inspired by David Hockney’s Californian aesthetic. The composition presents a female figure seen from behind, standi...

A walk through any major museum will reveal paintings that depict or legitimate only certain kinds of experience. Despite the good intentions of critical theorists questioning the validity of the canon, paintings of the old masters on the walls of museums like the Met, the Louvre, Rijks museum still have a certain cache. They're revered not just for their technique but because they enshrine our collective past experience. Of course, it's a selected past that gets validated. Conspicuously absent to me as a gay man...

This acrylic painting on canvas is a poetic blend of softness and power, of ethereal femininity and mythological mystery. The central figure, a nude woman, stands in a dreamlike haze...

Stamped, verso, with certification of authenticity for Suzanne Gertz (American, 1938-2003) and painted circa 1985, partial signature lower right. Suzanne Gertz first studied at the...

With vibrant acrylic, pastel, and watercolor, I poured raw emotion into this piece—an energetic symphony of shape and color. The swirling patterns and fragmented forms echo movement ...

In this piece, I explored fragility and strength through the delicate rose held between two hands. Using the raw energy of expressive lines and subtle, symbolic color contrasts, I wa...