Matthew Alfonso Durante Paintings

Klett was an in-demand illustrator in the post-war period of the late 1940's and 1950's. and . His work appeared in many of the newsstand magazines at the time. This work is a pers...

In The New Scene of Van Eyden, I reimagine a classical genre scene as a contemporary reflection on self-perception. Three figures — myself, my avatar, and the avatar’s companion — sh...

This painting reimagines Valentin Serov’s iconic “Girl with Peaches” through the emotional and psychological lens of contemporary Ukraine. In Serov’s original, the young girl sits in...

It's just a little embarassing. Our young bather went for a skinny dip in the river and now needs to snatch her clothes without being spotted by the elderly artist on the river bank ...

In this piece, I poured my emotions into every brushstroke, blending acrylic, pastel, watercolor, and pen to breathe life into a vibrant tree. The mix of expressionism and impression...

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...

Exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (1947) and the University of Illinois Exhibition of Contemporary Painting (1948), this painting by Philip Evergood exemplifies 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 ...

This atmospheric painting presents a carefully constructed narrative moment that unfolds within the quiet intimacy of a domestic interior. The composition depicts a young woman stan...

In this piece, I captured the delicate balance between fragility and transformation, using soft pastels and fluid watercolors to evoke a gentle, dreamlike energy. The butterfly and s...

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...

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...