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Ray Donley Portrait Paintings

American
Ray Donley was born in Austin, Texas, in 1950. He attended the University of Texas at Austin, graduating summa cum laude in 1981. He completed his master's degree in art history with particular focus on Dutch and Spanish baroque art. Donley is what is known as a New Old Master, newly uncovering the subtleties and mysteries of old style oil painting method for a modern audience. He masters oil painting, using chiaroscuro to define the features of his models. And while, he may be getting his inspiration from the Great Masters from the XVIIth century, he has created his very own...very contemporary world with his series Los Bien Perdidos (the profoundly lost ones). The expressions of his fictional subjects are enigmatic and ambiguous. The absence of movement is noticeable in all the paintings. They are frozen for eternity, yet they will be as relevant tomorrow as they were yesterday. They are forever provoking, disturbing and fascinating. Ray Donley Statement ACCORDING TO RAY “I choose to use such imagery and technique as a point of departure for exploring a world that is idiosyncratic, personal, and capable of transcending time and place. And whereas much of the portraiture of the Renaissance and Baroque sought to reveal something of the state of mind of the subject, there is an aspect of my work that seeks to turn this idea around by presenting a kind of imagery that, instead, reveals something about the state of mind of the viewer.”
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Artist: Ray Donley
Striped Cap, Portrait, Figurative, Baroque, Female, Oil, Painting, Timeless
By Ray Donley
Located in Riverdale, NY
Striped Cap is a baroque inspired portrait, oil on linen, by Ray Donley. It is 24x24. It is a timeless figurative painting featuring a female figure. For Ray Donley, the classic...
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Early 2000s Baroque Ray Donley Portrait Paintings

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Striped Cap, Portrait, Figurative, Baroque, Female, Oil, Painting, Timeless
Striped Cap, Portrait, Figurative, Baroque, Female, Oil, Painting, Timeless

Ray Donley
Striped Cap, Portrait, Figurative, Baroque, Female, Oil, Painting, Timeless, 2008

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