Sadamasa Motonaga Paintings

Contemporary figurative painting with lots of details and movement. Beautiful statement piece for any art collection. Combining a lot of different colors in any interiors and settin...

This work speaks about suspended attention and emotional fatigue — a state in which anticipation becomes heavier than action. The figure leans forward as if listening for a sign that...

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"Quiet Little Prods" Large Scale 1960s Oil Painting - Geometric Abstraction Bold piece by Felix Ruvolo (American, 1912-1992). This piece exemplifie...

Beautiful portrait of a seated woman, ca. 1960. Oil on canvas measuring 18 x 24.5 inches. Unsigned. Unframed.

Shame does not disappear here — it loses its power to define. What is usually concealed no longer requires protection or justification. Openness is not presented as a gesture or a s...

ABOUT THE ARTWORK She Returns to Herself traces a woman’s return to her own center. The mirrored figures, each held by a red animal presence, suggest an encounter with instinct, mem...

Green & Grey Abstract Geometric Composition in Oil on Canvas Vivid abstract with green and grey patterned triangular shapes with heavy impasto texture by Tara McDonald (American, 20...

Colorful Vermont I created this vivid painting with a symphony of brushstrokes that dance on the canvas, weaving into a tapestry of color and energy. Each stroke is a whisper of emot...

As is generally the case with my paintings, this work proceeded from a place of unknowing. The specificity of imagery and technique belie the non-specific character of the ideas and narratives presented. The imagery is not tied to any pre-existent source (textual or other). It is not preconceived by the artist, rather it is produced spontaneously in the process of painting. That said, it seems both easy and sensible to connect the imagery in this painting to common cultural material, especially that from very ancient sources. The central figure is very much like a totemic Neolithic goddess- the sort of which seem to be among the most ancient artistic works, examples are extant from eras stretching back tens of thousands of years. A lot has been written about figures of that kind but of course no one can reasonably claim to truly understand them. Here the great goddess appears with wings and entwined serpents. Crowned also with a glowing orb she has become an emblem of a matristic hermetica. The smaller figure may be less evidently archetypical. She is a younger goddess, a daughter like Persephone to Demeter. She lifts the breasts of her mother signifying perhaps how the presence of the child evokes the nurturing qualities of the mother or how Persephone’s seasonal ascent from the underworld awakens in her mother the impulse to again give life to the world. The cluster of gynomorphic figures contained by the crescent moon at the center of the painting refer to the balanced transformations of the lunar cycle and their mysteriously harmonic physical manifestation in the vital cycles of a woman’s body. At their axis is the cycloptical abdomen of the figure enthroned on the moon. The entire totem rises from a terrestrial gateway into an open landscape. In the background megaliths obscure the horizon. They represent a first boundary in time- the beginning of history. Below is the gateway, the opening to an inner earth...

This abstract painting by Michèle Destarac is characterized by a dynamic interplay of texture, gesture, and muted intensity. Thick layers of white and off-white paint dominate the co...

Robert O'Meara (American, XX-XXI), Abstract Composition Diptych, Oil on Board, apparently unsigned, unframed. 24" H x 18" W. Provenance: From a 333 East 75th Street Estate.