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Item Ships From: Canada
A Poodle Creates a Portrait of General Idea as Three Pee Holes in the Snow
By General Idea
Located in Toronto, Ontario
General Idea was formed in 1967 in Toronto and over the next nearly 30 years, the trio made a remarkable contribution to post-modern art.
With their subversive approach and intere...
Category
1980s Conceptual Canada - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Gold
Yellow
Located in Toronto, ON
Limited Edition Print on Canvas of 75
Hand Signed by Mick Fleetwood
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Canvas
Unicycle and Bird
Located in Toronto, ON
16" x 23" Unframed
Limited Edition Serigraph of 295
Hand Signed by Annora Spence
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Canada - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Screen
The Cross in Hana (Unique)
Located in Toronto, ON
Hand Embellished Unique
Limited Edition Print on Canvas
Hand Signed by Mick Fleetwood
Red Acrylic Hand Print on Front
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Canvas
Mother and Child
By Raphael Soyer
Located in Toronto, ON
10" x 8" Unframed
Etching of 55
Hand Signed by Soyer
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Canada - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Safe Haven
By Jim Keifer
Located in Toronto, ON
24" x 45" Unframed
Hand Embellished Giclee on Canvas Monoprint
Hand Signed by Jim and Kathleen Keifer
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Canada - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Giclée, Canvas, Monoprint
Indiana Avenue
By Jim Keifer
Located in Toronto, ON
40" x 40" Unframed
Limited Edition Giclee on Canvas of 50
Hand Signed by Jim Keifer
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Canada - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Giclée
My Uniform Is Invisible
Located in Toronto, ON
Rogues Series
Original Painting and Limited Edition Prints on Canvas
Hand Signed by Stickman 2023
18" x 24" Unframed
SE Series Edition of 150
Category
2010s Canada - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Giclée
Afternoon
Located in Toronto, ON
23" x 17" Unframed
Limited Edition Serigraph Artist Proof of 20
Hand Signed by Jason Alexander
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Canada - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Screen
Ba Ba Bennie
By Bernie Taupin
Located in Toronto, ON
28" x 20" Unframed
Limited Edition Giclée on Paper of 50
Hand Signed by Bernie Taupin
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Canada - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Giclée
Theory of Mixology
Located in Toronto, ON
Collaboration with Stickman and Micheal Godard
Rebels Series
30" x 50" Unframed
AP Artist Proof on Canvas of 50
Hand signed by Stickman
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Canada - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Giclée
These Are Things Known and Things Unknown
Located in Toronto, ON
Rockstars Series
Original Painting and Limited Edition Prints on Canvas
Hand Signed by Stickman 2023
18" x 24" Unframed
SE Series Edition of 150
Category
2010s Canada - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Giclée
Have You Seen Them Yet
By Bernie Taupin
Located in Toronto, ON
28" x 20" Unframed
Limited Edition Giclée on Paper of 50
Hand Signed by Bernie Taupin
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Canada - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Giclée
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
By Roy Lichtenstein
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Roy Lichtenstein (1923-1997) was one of the most successful and influential artists of the 20th century, helping pioneer and define Pop Art in the 1960s.
Lichtenstein's signature st...
Category
1960s Pop Art Canada - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
New Moon
Located in Toronto, ON
23" x 17" Unframed
Limited Edition Serigraph Artist Proof of 20
Hand Signed by Jason Alexander
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Canada - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Screen
Pinnochio
By Jim Dine
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Jim Dine (b. 1935) was one of the original artists that defined Pop Art in the 1960s and redirected American art away from abstraction by including depictions of objects and items fr...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Screen
The Cross in Hana (Unique)
Located in Toronto, ON
Hand Embellished Unique
Limited Edition Print on Canvas
Hand Signed by Mick Fleetwood
Red Acrylic Hand Print on Front
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Canvas
She Still Loves to Feel the Pages
By Todd White
Located in Toronto, ON
23" x 22.75" Unframed
Hand Embellished Giclée on Paper of 14
Hand Signed by Todd White
COA Included
Todd white captures restaurant, night and Hollywood scenes with contrasting color...
Category
2010s Expressionist Canada - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Giclée
Le pont du Havre en construction
By Marc-Aurèle Fortin
Located in Westmount, QC
Marc-Aurèle Fortin, 1888-1970, Canadian
Le pont du Havre en construction, c. 1940
Etching
8 x 11 in
INSCRIPTIONS
Numbered and titled Lower left “Le pont du Havre en construction”;
in...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Canada - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Howlin' Wolf
By Ronnie Wood
Located in Toronto, ON
23" x 16" Unframed
Limited Edition Numbered of 250
Hand Signed by Ronnie Wood
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Canada - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Giclée
Winding Down
Located in Toronto, ON
36" x 36" Unframed
Limited Edition Giclee Artsit Proof of 135
Hand Signed by Thomas Arvid
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Canada - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Giclée
The Right Romantic Line
By Bernie Taupin
Located in Toronto, ON
28" x 20" Unframed
Limited Edition Giclée on Paper of 50
Hand Signed by Bernie Taupin
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Canada - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Giclée
If I Only Had A...
Located in Toronto, ON
30" x 14" Unframed
Limited Edition Giclee HR of 35
Hand Signed by Thomas Arvid
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Canada - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Giclée
My Girlfriend Ophelia
By Tony Scherman
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Tony Scherman (1950 - 2023) is one of the most collected and cherished Canadian artists. He is renowned internationally for his work, typically executed in encaustic, a mix of wax an...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Encaustic, Giclée, Monoprint
City Lights
Located in Toronto, ON
Standard Edition
16" x 12" Unframed
Limited Edition Serigraph of 100
Hand Signed by Jason Alexander
1996
Artist Proof
16" x 12" Unframed
Limited Edition Serigraph with Hand Drawn Re...
Category
1990s Canada - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Screen
Panning For Gold
By Todd White
Located in Toronto, ON
29.5" x 12" Unframed
Limited Edition Giclee with Hand Embellishment of 135
Hand Signed by Todd White
Todd white captures restaurant, night and Hollywood scenes with contrasting col...
Category
2010s Expressionist Canada - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Giclée
Midnight No. 2
By Gershon Iskowitz
Located in Toronto, Ontario
This vibrant Gershon Iskowitz (1921-1988) print is a perfect example of the artist's iconic style. A signature of his practice is the use of large cloud-like forms of saturated color...
Category
1980s Abstract Canada - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Aquatint, Lithograph
Muldenberg
By Peter Doig
Located in Toronto, Ontario
In 2007, Peter Doig (b. 1959) became a household name when his painting “White Canoe” sold for $11.3 million at auction, setting the record at the time for the highest auction price ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Canada - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Color, Etching
The Cross in Hana (B&W)
Located in Toronto, ON
Limited Edition Print on Canvas of 75
Hand Signed by Mick Fleetwood
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Canvas
My Brand New Pistol
By Todd White
Located in Toronto, ON
18" x 20" Unframed
Limited Edition Giclee on Canvas with Hand Embellishment of 75
Hand Signed by Todd White
Todd white captures restaurant, night and Hollywood scenes with contrasting colors serving the viewer’s eyes as those in his stolen scenes serve or are served-wine, coffee, cigarettes, cigars, and martinis. He creates timeless scenes of diverse attraction, of known intimacy. Within the exaggerated features and textured skin of his characters lies truth, yours and theirs. Distinctive bodies and details to lips, eyes, hair, skin, hands and what is held in each, separate and blend his characters’ lives. The smoke that rises from their lips, the drinks that linger at their fingertips, the clothing that adorns their bodies and the crowd created among lovers, friends, patrons and co-workers all speak a certain poetry. Each character depicts the subtleties of what one shows and what one hides. An asymmetrical face tells of an asymmetrical life, of how life wears and how we wear life — what we choose to carry in our hands and on our faces — how we wear ourselves, what smoke and color we stand in.
Todd’s paintings are captivating, demanding a second look, often invoking humor or thoughts of familiar feelings — I’ve been there, I know them. Above all, the work is infectious and has caught the attention of the public (galleries cannot keep enough of Todd’s work in stock) as well as celebrities (Vin Diesel, Hugh Hefner, Macaulay Culkin, Eric McCormack, Ryan Stiles and Joe Rogan are collectors of Todd’s oil paintings). But who is the artist behind the art and where did his unique style come from?
Todd began in at Warner Bros. Studios while working on the popular series, tiny toons. Through character clean-up and development, Todd began to forge his own artistic style. Shortly thereafter, Todd became part of the lead animation team for the internationally renowned cartoon, sponge bob square pants. Over the next three years, Todd sharpened his eye in storyboarding, illustration and character design.
Throughout this period, Todd privately experimented with style and concept, eventually arriving at a process which guides him through every piece. The impact is apparent in his paintings; Todd’s rat-pack-meets-Picasso style results, in part, from his desire to reveal his characters’ innermost thoughts and emotions on their faces. Todd likens his portraits to his favorite episode of the Twilight Zone in which people wore masks that later became their faces and revealed who they truly were.
Fast forward ten years later, and until Todd can conceptually see the story in his head, he refuses to paint a single signature knuckle curled around one of his famous martinis. "I actually name my pieces first and then i visualise each face and its personality. Then I develop each person’s story." The stark, unblemished delivery of his subjects is very much intended: whatever isn’t necessary to the story isn’t on my canvas. "I don’t waste a lot of time with backgrounds because they don’t interest me. They aren’t necessary. Instead i focus on what is essential. For example, the hands." Hands are a focal point for Todd, reflecting the subject’s state of mind as much as any body language or facial expression. Everyone’s hands are full of personality he surmises. Take Al Pacino; without his hands, he’s not nearly as interesting to watch.
In addition to more obvious influences, such as Austrian expressionist Egon...
Category
2010s Canada - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Giclée
Abstraction
Located in Toronto, ON
39.5" x 29" Unframed
Original Monoprint
Hand Signed by Dennis Frings
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Canada - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Monoprint
Tennis Court
Located in Toronto, ON
8.5" x 15" Unframed
Artist's Proof Etching
Hand Signed by Joe Lasker
Part of the Permanent Collection of the Smithsonian
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Canada - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Promenade II
Located in Toronto, ON
19" x 16" Unframed
Limited Edition Etching of 150
Hand Signed by A. Shtelman
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Canada - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Dance Etude
By Barry Oretsky
Located in Toronto, ON
28" x 24" Unframed
Limited Edition Lithograph of 300
Hand Signed by Barry Oretsky
1994
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Canada - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Duke Ellington
By Ronnie Wood
Located in Toronto, ON
23" x 16" Unframed
Limited Edition Numbered of 250
Hand Signed by Ronnie Wood
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Canada - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Giclée
Spirit of the Chase
By Todd White
Located in Toronto, ON
18" x 32" Unframed
Limited Edition Giclee with Hand Embellishment of 135
Hand Signed by Todd White
Todd white captures restaurant, night and Hollywood scenes with contrasting colors...
Category
2010s Expressionist Canada - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Giclée
White Tie Affair
By Todd White
Located in Toronto, ON
20" x 16" Unframed
Limited Edition Giclee on Canvas with Hand Embellishment of 100
Hand Signed by Todd White
Todd white captures restaurant, night and Hollywood scenes with contrast...
Category
2010s Expressionist Canada - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Giclée
Confessions
By Todd White
Located in Toronto, ON
24" x 14" Unframed
Limited Edition Giclee with Hand Embellishment of 100
Hand Signed by Todd White
2021
Todd white captures restaurant, night and Hollywood scenes with contrasting c...
Category
2010s Expressionist Canada - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Giclée
Keep It Hawaiian (Unique)
Located in Toronto, ON
Limited Edition Print on Canvas of 75
Hand Signed by Mick Fleetwood
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Canvas
Blue Grey Stretch
By Harold Town
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Harold Town (1924-1990) is renowned in Canada for his prolific, versatile and dynamic body of work.
Town was dubbed the "Picasso of Canada" for his ever-changing aesthetic and pere...
Category
1970s Abstract Canada - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Kurt
Located in Toronto, ON
24" x 18"
Limited Edition Giclee
Numbered of 25
Hand Signed by John-Mark Gleadow 2023
24" x 18"
Printers Proof
Hand Signed by John-Mark Gleadow 2023
24" x 18"
Artist Proof
Numbered of 2
Hand Signed by John-Mark Gleadow 2023
My original vision for “The Day the Music Died...
Category
2010s Canada - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Giclée
Orange Blue Stretch
By Harold Town
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Harold Town (1924-1990) is renowned across Canada for his eclectic and dynamic body of work.
In the 1950s, Town established his reputation with a series of abstract monotypes (call...
Category
1970s Canada - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
The Audience
By Michael Snow
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Michael Snow (1929-2023) was one of the most remarkable multi-disciplinary Canadian artists. He is renowned for a diverse body of work that ranges from experimental films and jazz re...
Category
1980s Modern Canada - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper
KISS KISS BANG BANG . Director’s Cut
By Sean Danconia
Located in Toronto, ON
27" x 36" Unframed
Premium Gloss Canvas Giclee, Hand Embellished in Acrylic, Acrylic Gel, Archival Ink
Hand Signed by Sean Danconia
2011
With Edward Woodward as Blofeld, Alain De...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Canada - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Canvas, Archival Ink, Acrylic, Giclée
My Mouseketeer
By Todd White
Located in Toronto, ON
24" x 20" Unframed
Limited Edition Giclée with Hand Embellishment of 100
Hand Signed by Todd White
Category
2010s Canada - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Giclée
Niki II
By Robert Hartshorn
Located in Toronto, ON
Image Size: 11" x 13.5" Unframed
Limited Edition Giclee on Canvas Printer's Proof of 6
Hand Signed by Robert Hartshorn
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Canada - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Giclée
Stars
Located in Toronto, ON
20" x 26" Unframed
Serigraph of 145 II
Hand Signed by Diana Christensen
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Canada - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Screen
Aquafuerte
Located in Toronto, ON
15" x 12.5" Unframed
Limited Edition Etching on Paper of 300
Hand Signed by Cayetano Anibal
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Canada - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper, Etching
Down the Drink
By General Idea
Located in Toronto, Ontario
In 1967, General Idea was founded in Toronto by AA Bronson (b. 1946), Felix Partz (1945-1994), and Jorge Zontal (1944-1994). Over the course of 25 years, they made a significant contribution to postmodern and conceptual art in Canada and beyond.
The group was both prolific and multi-disciplinary long before it became de rigueur. They with photography, sculpture, painting, mail art, video, installation, multiples, and performance. While the medium frequently changed, General Idea early introduced talismans or logos that they would revisit and re-envision, including skulls, ziggurats, and poodles.
(The EyeEye crest, for example, reappears in 1993 as a benefit print for the International Festival of Authors)
This print comes from "Fear Management": a set of 8 prints...
Category
1980s Post-Modern Canada - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Screen
Magical Mystery Life . Lennon Loves
By Sean Danconia
Located in Toronto, ON
35" x 30" Unframed
Premium Gloss Canvas Giclee, Hand Embellished in Acrylic, Acrylic Gel, Archival Ink
Hand Signed by Sean Danconia
"MAGICAL MYSTERY L...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Canada - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Canvas, Archival Ink, Acrylic, Giclée
Gypsy (Romani)
By Todd White
Located in Toronto, ON
24" x 12" Unframed
Limited Edition Giclee of 25
Hand Signed by Todd White
2020
Todd white captures restaurant, night and Hollywood scenes with contrasting colors serving the viewer’s eyes as those in his stolen scenes serve or are served-wine, coffee, cigarettes, cigars, and martinis. He creates timeless scenes of diverse attraction, of known intimacy. Within the exaggerated features and textured skin of his characters lies truth, yours and theirs. Distinctive bodies and details to lips, eyes, hair, skin, hands and what is held in each, separate and blend his characters’ lives. The smoke that rises from their lips, the drinks that linger at their fingertips, the clothing that adorns their bodies and the crowd created among lovers, friends, patrons and co-workers all speak a certain poetry. Each character depicts the subtleties of what one shows and what one hides. An asymmetrical face tells of an asymmetrical life, of how life wears and how we wear life — what we choose to carry in our hands and on our faces — how we wear ourselves, what smoke and color we stand in.
Todd’s paintings are captivating, demanding a second look, often invoking humor or thoughts of familiar feelings — I’ve been there, I know them. Above all, the work is infectious and has caught the attention of the public (galleries cannot keep enough of Todd’s work in stock) as well as celebrities (Vin Diesel, Hugh Hefner, Macaulay Culkin, Eric McCormack, Ryan Stiles and Joe Rogan are collectors of Todd’s oil paintings). But who is the artist behind the art and where did his unique style come from?
Todd began in at Warner Bros. Studios while working on the popular series, tiny toons. Through character clean-up and development, Todd began to forge his own artistic style. Shortly thereafter, Todd became part of the lead animation team for the internationally renowned cartoon, sponge bob square pants. Over the next three years, Todd sharpened his eye in storyboarding, illustration and character design.
Throughout this period, Todd privately experimented with style and concept, eventually arriving at a process which guides him through every piece. The impact is apparent in his paintings; Todd’s rat-pack-meets-Picasso style results, in part, from his desire to reveal his characters’ innermost thoughts and emotions on their faces. Todd likens his portraits to his favorite episode of the Twilight Zone in which people wore masks that later became their faces and revealed who they truly were.
Fast forward ten years later, and until Todd can conceptually see the story in his head, he refuses to paint a single signature knuckle curled around one of his famous martinis. "I actually name my pieces first and then i visualise each face and its personality. Then I develop each person’s story." The stark, unblemished delivery of his subjects is very much intended: whatever isn’t necessary to the story isn’t on my canvas. "I don’t waste a lot of time with backgrounds because they don’t interest me. They aren’t necessary. Instead i focus on what is essential. For example, the hands." Hands are a focal point for Todd, reflecting the subject’s state of mind as much as any body language or facial expression. Everyone’s hands are full of personality he surmises. Take Al Pacino; without his hands, he’s not nearly as interesting to watch.
In addition to more obvious influences, such as Austrian expressionist Egon...
Category
2010s Canada - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Giclée
Falling Sparrow
By Todd White
Located in Toronto, ON
24" x 14" Unframed
Limited Edition Giclee with Hand Embellishment of 100
Hand Signed by Todd White
2021
Todd white captures restaurant, night and Hollywood scenes with contrasting co...
Category
2010s Expressionist Canada - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Giclée
The Fans
Located in Toronto, ON
Image Size: 16" x 20"
Limited Edition of 10
Giclée on Canvas
Hand Signed by Andre Philibert
Category
2010s Canada - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Giclée
It’s Alright if You Love Me
By Todd White
Located in Toronto, ON
40" x 16" Unframed
Limited Edition Giclee on Canvas of 5
Hand Singed by Todd White
Todd white captures restaurant, night and Hollywood scenes with contrasting colors serving the vie...
Category
2010s Expressionist Canada - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Giclée
Decisions Decisions
By Charles Pachter
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Every artist has their muse. Queen Elizabeth is an icon/muse that Charles Pachter has repeatedly visited over the course of his career.
In "Decisions, Decisions", Pachter playfully ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Giclée
Serie Resiliencias
Located in Toronto, ON
11" x 7.5" Unframed
2 Ink Woodcut Print on Paper
Limited Edition of 3
Hand Signed by Iván Bautista
Category
2010s Canada - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
Lonzo Ball Lakers (Hand signed by Lonzo Ball)
By Johnathan Ball
Located in Toronto, ON
20" x 16" Unframed
Limited Edition Print with Hand Embellishment of 10
Autographed by Lonzo Ball
Hand Signed by Johnathan Ball
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Canada - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Giclée
Flying Over the Poppies
By Todd White
Located in Toronto, ON
40.75" x 11.25" Unframed
Limited Edition Giclée on Canvas with Hand Embellishment
Numbered of 80
Hand Signed by Todd White
Todd white captures restaurant, night and Hollywood scenes with contrasting colors serving the viewer’s eyes as those in his stolen scenes serve or are served-wine, coffee, cigarettes, cigars, and martinis. He creates timeless scenes of diverse attraction, of known intimacy. Within the exaggerated features and textured skin of his characters lies truth, yours and theirs. Distinctive bodies and details to lips, eyes, hair, skin, hands and what is held in each, separate and blend his characters’ lives. The smoke that rises from their lips, the drinks that linger at their fingertips, the clothing that adorns their bodies and the crowd created among lovers, friends, patrons and co-workers all speak a certain poetry. Each character depicts the subtleties of what one shows and what one hides. An asymmetrical face tells of an asymmetrical life, of how life wears and how we wear life — what we choose to carry in our hands and on our faces — how we wear ourselves, what smoke and color we stand in.
Todd’s paintings are captivating, demanding a second look, often invoking humor or thoughts of familiar feelings — I’ve been there, I know them. Above all, the work is infectious and has caught the attention of the public (galleries cannot keep enough of Todd’s work in stock) as well as celebrities (Vin Diesel, Hugh Hefner, Macaulay Culkin, Eric McCormack, Ryan Stiles and Joe Rogan are collectors of Todd’s oil paintings). But who is the artist behind the art and where did his unique style come from?
Todd began in at Warner Bros. Studios while working on the popular series, tiny toons. Through character clean-up and development, Todd began to forge his own artistic style. Shortly thereafter, Todd became part of the lead animation team for the internationally renowned cartoon, sponge bob square pants. Over the next three years, Todd sharpened his eye in storyboarding, illustration and character design.
Throughout this period, Todd privately experimented with style and concept, eventually arriving at a process which guides him through every piece. The impact is apparent in his paintings; Todd’s rat-pack-meets-Picasso style results, in part, from his desire to reveal his characters’ innermost thoughts and emotions on their faces. Todd likens his portraits to his favorite episode of the Twilight Zone in which people wore masks that later became their faces and revealed who they truly were.
Fast forward ten years later, and until Todd can conceptually see the story in his head, he refuses to paint a single signature knuckle curled around one of his famous martinis. "I actually name my pieces first and then i visualise each face and its personality. Then I develop each person’s story." The stark, unblemished delivery of his subjects is very much intended: whatever isn’t necessary to the story isn’t on my canvas. "I don’t waste a lot of time with backgrounds because they don’t interest me. They aren’t necessary. Instead i focus on what is essential. For example, the hands." Hands are a focal point for Todd, reflecting the subject’s state of mind as much as any body language or facial expression. Everyone’s hands are full of personality he surmises. Take Al Pacino; without his hands, he’s not nearly as interesting to watch.
In addition to more obvious influences, such as Austrian expressionist Egon...
Category
2010s Expressionist Canada - Prints and Multiples
Materials
Giclée
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