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Item Ships From: Louisiana
A Good Book and a Lake. Poverty Point State Park
By Kathryn Keller
Located in New Orleans, LA
Poverty Point Reservoir State Park in NE Louisiana.
Category
2010s American Realist Louisiana - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Smoking Kills
By Trenity Thomas
Located in New Orleans, LA
TRENITY THOMAS is a self-taught photographer who has also experimented with painting and sketching since grade school. As a photographer, he has worked ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Louisiana - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel
Petit Dejeuner (Framed Contemporary Abstract Painting)
By Guy Lyman
Located in New Orleans, LA
"I have been painting seriously for somewhere around 35 years, but have only ever sold regionally - most recently, through my gallery on Magazine Street in New Orleans. Through 1stDi...
Category
2010s Abstract Louisiana - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Rubber, Charcoal, Oil Crayon, Oil, Acrylic
Reflecting
By Trenity Thomas
Located in New Orleans, LA
TRENITY THOMAS is a self-taught photographer who has also experimented with painting and sketching since grade school. As a photographer, he has worked in a myriad of genres including fashion, lifestyle, editorial, conceptual, sports, portraiture, and nightlife photography. As a photographer, Trenity uses his camera to capture the life and composition of still life around him. His photographs have a warmth to them that pulls the viewer into the scene as if they were present - a feature that has become characteristic of his photographic style.
Trenity Thomas has been in various juried exhibitions, most recently, JONATHAN FERRARA GALLERY's 24th Annual NO DEAD ARTISTS International Juried Exhibition of Contemporary Art and the Louisiana Contemporary juried exhibition presented by The Helis Foundation at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans, Louisiana. His photographs have also received international attention when they were chosen for exhibition in photovogue, a prestigious collection of photographs...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Louisiana - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Wood Panel
Le bouquet dans les bras by Jean-Pierre Cassigneul
By Jean-Pierre Cassigneul
Located in New Orleans, LA
Jean-Pierre Cassigneul
b.1935 French
Le bouquet dans les bras
(The bouquet in the arms)
Signed “Cassigneul” (lower right)
Signed, titled and dated "Le bouquet dans les bras / Cass...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Post-Impressionist Louisiana - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Alive in the Dark
By Trenity Thomas
Located in New Orleans, LA
TRENITY THOMAS is a self-taught photographer who has also experimented with painting and sketching since grade school. As a photographer, he has worked ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Louisiana - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Looking Blue
By Trenity Thomas
Located in New Orleans, LA
TRENITY THOMAS is a self-taught photographer who has also experimented with painting and sketching since grade school. As a photographer, he has worked in a myriad of genres including fashion, lifestyle, editorial, conceptual, sports, portraiture, and nightlife photography. As a photographer, Trenity uses his camera to capture the life and composition of still life around him. His photographs have a warmth to them that pulls the viewer into the scene as if they were present - a feature that has become characteristic of his photographic style.
Trenity Thomas has been in various juried exhibitions, most recently, JONATHAN FERRARA GALLERY's 24th Annual NO DEAD ARTISTS International Juried Exhibition of Contemporary Art and the Louisiana Contemporary juried exhibition presented by The Helis Foundation at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans, Louisiana. His photographs have also received international attention when they were chosen for exhibition in photovogue, a prestigious collection of photographs...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Louisiana - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Oil Pastel
A Surmountable Problem Writ Large
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
After: The Young Beggar by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (c. 1645-50) and Approaching Thunder Storm by Martin Johnson Heade (1859)
The main character of this painting finds himself mired in a pond as a sizeable storm approaches, and yet – instead of standing up and removing himself from the trouble – he chooses to focus on the discomfort of his wet clothing.
This child, attending to a minor nuisance rather than enacting a permanent solution, stands in as an icon of our current sociopolitical leadership – leadership which has defined our modern reality by its preference for constantly kicking the can on major issues (climate change, income inequality, various forms of discrimination, and so much more) as the rest of us are left to watch from the shore.
ADAM MYSOCK was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1983 - the son of an elementary school English teacher and a lab technician who specialized in the manufacturing of pigments. On account of a steady stream of folk tales from his mother and his father’s vividly dyed work clothes, he developed an interest in narrative and representative painting from an early age. Mysock earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Painting and Art History in 2004 from Tulane University and an MFA from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale in 2007.
After his studies, Mysock taught at the university level for nearly a decade, including as a Professor of Practice at Tulane University. In 2016, he and his family moved back to Cincinnati, where he currently serves as coordinator for Manifest Drawing Center.
Mysock’s work has been exhibited throughout the country and is in private collections across the US, including the 21c Museum, Beth Rudin DeWoody, Ruslan Yusupov, Thomas Coleman and Michael...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Panel, Acrylic
Lemons in Cowboy Hat
By Trenity Thomas
Located in New Orleans, LA
TRENITY THOMAS is a self-taught photographer who has also experimented with painting and sketching since grade school. As a photographer, he has worked ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Louisiana - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel
Dreamer (Mid-Century Impressionist European Nude Man Portrait Painting)
Located in New Orleans, LA
A beautiful painting I acquired when I was buying things from Russia and Ukraine maybe 7 or 8 years ago. It's painted on very heavy cardboard, as I'd say the majority from the Soviet...
Category
Mid-20th Century Romantic Louisiana - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Mixed Media on Cowboy
By Trenity Thomas
Located in New Orleans, LA
TRENITY THOMAS is a self-taught photographer who has also experimented with painting and sketching since grade school. As a photographer, he has worked ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Louisiana - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Permanent Marker, Graphite, Canvas, Acrylic
Just Hanging
By Trenity Thomas
Located in New Orleans, LA
TRENITY THOMAS is a self-taught photographer who has also experimented with painting and sketching since grade school. As a photographer, he has worked ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Louisiana - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel
Whatchu Got?
By Trenity Thomas
Located in New Orleans, LA
TRENITY THOMAS is a self-taught photographer who has also experimented with painting and sketching since grade school. As a photographer, he has worked ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Louisiana - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Santa
By Leslie Thrasher
Located in New Orleans, LA
A Salvation Army Santa looks on with a mixture of fatigue and disinterest as a group of children tell him their Christmas gift wish lists in this lighthearted composition by leading American illustrator Leslie Thrasher. This painting was created for the December 20, 1930 issue of Liberty Magazine, for which the artist illustrated covers on a weekly basis for six consecutive years. Thrasher is known for his scenes of everyday American life imbued with a sense of humor, qualities represented to great effect in this charming painting.
Born in 1889 in Piedmont, West Virginia, Thrasher studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts as a teenager and received a scholarship to study art abroad in Paris. Upon his return, he began studying under Howard Pyle, known as the “father of American illustration.” Thrasher sold his first cover illustration to the Saturday Evening Post in 1912, four years before Norman Rockwell’s first Post cover, and he would go on to produce over 360 magazine covers throughout his career. He painted humorous, relatable scenes of everyday life in America with colorful characters set against white backgrounds. He was also a successful commercial artist, painting advertisements for Cream of Wheat, Chesterfield Cigarettes...
Category
Early 20th Century Other Art Style Louisiana - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A person who used to be an enemy
By Akihiko Sugiura
Located in New Orleans, LA
Akihiko says of his work…
My body of work is an experiment in rejecting conventional views of painting, reconsidering the very act of viewing, and reassessing traditional oil painti...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
L’embarquement by Gaston La Touche
By Gaston La Touche
Located in New Orleans, LA
Gaston La Touche
1854 - 1913 French
L’embarquement
The Embarkment
Signed "Gaston La Touche" (lower right)
Oil on panel
A fashionable group of merrymakers boards a rowboat at sundown in this oil on panel by renowned French painter Gaston La Touche. Softly lit and lushly detailed, the work represents the artist’s talent for capturing the gaiety of the Belle Époque. With its luminous coloring and feathery brushwork, this oil evokes the style and joie de vivre of the era rendered in La Touche’s distinctive, mature style.
Fresh and airy, the work is a beautiful example of the artist’s skill at capturing the subtle qualities of light and color. Set against the plein air backdrop of a wooded pond awash in the soft glow of the golden hour, the scene reflects the influence of the Impressionists. The subject also recalls works by Manet, Monet and Renoir, who delighted in depictions of modern leisure among the expanding middle class. The scene is an informal one, and its unconventional cropping suggests that the viewer is invited to take a seat in the boat and join the group on their outing. Such relaxed, inviting scenes were remarkably popular among contemporary, modern audiences. However, La Touche's style is singular, possessing an element of fantasy and romance that set him apart from the Impressionists.
Gaston La Touche was born in St. Cloud, outside of Paris, in 1854, and he showed a keen interest in art from a young age. At ten years old, he began taking private art instruction, which lasted until 1870, when his family was forced to flee to Normandy amid the Franco-Prussian War. This was the only formal art training La Touche would ever receive. Despite his lack of Academy training, he made his debut at the Paris Salon of 1875 with a sculptural medallion and etchings, and he exhibited his first painting at the Salon of 1881. Although he began his career painting dark-toned realist compositions, by 1890, his style had shifted to what would become his signature — a lighter, brighter, idealistic society world.
The artist was associated with practically all of the most influential artists and thinkers of late 19th century France, including Édouard Manet, Edgar Degas, Émile Zola, who frequently met at the legendary Cafe de la Nouvelle Athenes to share their thoughts on modern society. In 1900, he was named a Chevalier of the Legion d'Honneur and an Officer in 1909. Additionally, he was well-decorated at the grand...
Category
Late 19th Century Impressionist Louisiana - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
Elite
By Akihiko Sugiura
Located in New Orleans, LA
Akihiko says of his work…
My body of work is an experiment in rejecting conventional views of painting, reconsidering the very act of viewing, and reassessing traditional oil painti...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Swimmer (Framed Contemporary Multimedia Abstract Painting)
By Guy Lyman
Located in New Orleans, LA
Artist's Statement: "I typically paint abstractly, but this is part of a recent series of paintings that is figurative and symbolic. They harken back to 80s neo-Expressionism - my f...
Category
2010s Abstract Louisiana - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic, Watercolor, House Paint, Charcoal, Oil Crayon
Sea Gods
Located in New Orleans, LA
Michael Tole says of his work…
My conservative, Church of Christ grandmother lived in a pristine little mid-century modern house in the middle-of-no-where, Texas. Its trim, Protestant exterior belied a decadent mishmash of sculpted chocolate carpeting, and gold gilt Rococo furnishings inside. Strewn about the living room walls were frothy little reproductions of pearly, 18th century goddesses frolicking amid forests and streams--mocking the clean modern lines of the room. These prints of Bouchers and Fragonards were so pretty, so decorative, so innocuous in their style that it didn’t occur to me until years later when I studied them in college that they were lesbian love scenes. In these anodyne fetes, young women roiled, breasts and bottoms abounding, gazed into one another's doe eyes, and caressed fulsome cheeks. Though overtly erotic, their style was so decorative and soft that even my religiously conservative grandmother experienced no cognitive dissonance between the racy content and her religious beliefs. I find this tension between style and content, fascinating. The trio of paintings: The Summit of the Gods, Sea Gods, and Modern Marlowe are an exploration of it. I am unaware of any equivalent all male scenes from the Rococo period. This appears to be an inherent bias within the tradition. With this work, I am trying to pry open the tradition and make a space the male figure as decorative--pretty. I say "pretty" instead of "beautiful" because the "beautiful" can be threatening or challenging. "Pretty" is a term we generally apply to unambiguously attractive, comforting, and accepted things: flowers, puppies, babies, etc. I want to know if men can be pretty in the same way those 18th century goddesses are. I think I’ve made a pretty good visual argument for that perception. I'll know I've succeeded if the next generation of grandmas can host their women's bible study group in a living room hung with these paintings.
My grandmother likely bought these prints at about the time John Berger coined the truism: “Men act and women appear.” In one sense, this painting is asking if it is possible for men simply to appear, without a narrative justification. The mythological titles of this trio are intentionally vague enough to let the images reside mostly in a non-narrative context, placing emphasis on its aesthetics, not its story.
In my current work, The Revisionist Histories, I am writing letters to art history, literature, and mythology in an attempt to reflect the social changes that have reshaped our society over the past century. As part of this agenda, I explore the evolution of gender norms, power dynamics, and representation within Western visual culture and what this implies for the negotiation between pleasure, justice, and our culturally specific discourse on beauty.
The seed for The Revisionist Histories was sewn when I caught a glimpse of my preteen daughters watching music videos on their iPad as I chopped veggies for dinner. Out of the corner of my eye I caught glimpses of music videos featuring Beyonce, Taylor Swift, Ariana Grande, Katy Perry, and Doja Cat gyrating across the tiny screen. A better parent might have snatched the iPad away, but I was overcome with hallucinatory visions of this pop diva...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Moon Rock
Located in New Orleans, LA
JOHN ISIAH WALTON was born in 1985 in New Orleans, where he currently lives and works as a fine artist. He attended St. Augustine H.S. (1999-2002) and graduated from Sarah T. Reed H.S. (2003). Walton received an AA degree in 2012 from Delgado College, New Orleans. Walton has been a member of Second Story Gallery (2012- 13) and The Front, New Orleans (2014-2017) Level Artist Collective (2015-Present). He has lectured about his work to the graduate program at UNC, Chapel Hill...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Acadian Girl with Diamonds
By FPA Francis Pavy Artist
Located in Lafayette, LA
the medium for this small painting is oil on Masonite. The painting shows a silhouette of a woman surrounded by diamonds fleur-de-lis's, a guitar and a bottle.
on the reverse it reads: ACADIAN GIRL WITH DIAMONDS, © FRANCIS X PAVY...
Category
Early 2000s American Modern Louisiana - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Homenaje a las masas (Tribute to the masses) (doctor)
Located in New Orleans, LA
"As an artist I owe myself to my time, as a man to my history. My work is a reflection of my experience. Each stage offers my learning. Each What tells me the How. My filter? Maybe it ́s there, it has no purpose. We children speak without a filter and everyone sees us as innocent. I make innocence the culprit of all our ills..."
José Emilio Fuentes Fonseca (JEFF) is a Cuban artist born in 1974 in the province of Granma, graduated from the Higher Institute of Art. His training and work as plastic artist has been developed in the city of Havana, where he currently resides. Jeff at the age of 13 began to study art and his work has been consolidated as a reflection of his experiences.
His production is characterized by creative versatility. They manage to converge within their trajectory sculptural, pictorial, installation pieces, drawings and everything from a variety of formats that range from small to large dimensions.
Jeff's works remain impregnated with an expressive language so warm and diaphanous that they seem to refer with apparent innocence to the world of children. However, an evocative look of dissimilar trascendental themes for man prevails in each of his creations. José Emilio Fuentes Fonseca (JEFF) has been a participant in numerous personal and collective exhibitions since 1994. Throughout his short but intense career, Jeff has been recognized and awarded by important cultural centers and organizations in the country such as the Wilfredo Lam Contemporary Art Center, Havana Gallery, A.H.S Antonia...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Louisiana - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Homenaje a las masas (Tribute to the masses) (athlete)
Located in New Orleans, LA
"As an artist I owe myself to my time, as a man to my history. My work is a reflection of my experience. Each stage offers my learning. Each What tells me the How. My filter? Maybe it ́s there, it has no purpose. We children speak without a filter and everyone sees us as innocent. I make innocence the culprit of all our ills..."
José Emilio Fuentes Fonseca (JEFF) is a Cuban artist born in 1974 in the province of Granma, graduated from the Higher Institute of Art. His training and work as plastic artist has been developed in the city of Havana, where he currently resides. Jeff at the age of 13 began to study art and his work has been consolidated as a reflection of his experiences.
His production is characterized by creative versatility. They manage to converge within their trajectory sculptural, pictorial, installation pieces, drawings and everything from a variety of formats that range from small to large dimensions.
Jeff's works remain impregnated with an expressive language so warm and diaphanous that they seem to refer with apparent innocence to the world of children. However, an evocative look of dissimilar trascendental themes for man prevails in each of his creations. José Emilio Fuentes Fonseca (JEFF) has been a participant in numerous personal and collective exhibitions since 1994. Throughout his short but intense career, Jeff has been recognized and awarded by important cultural centers and organizations in the country such as the Wilfredo Lam Contemporary Art Center, Havana Gallery, A.H.S Antonia...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Louisiana - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Homenaje a las masas (Tribute to the masses) (clown)
Located in New Orleans, LA
"As an artist I owe myself to my time, as a man to my history. My work is a reflection of my experience. Each stage offers my learning. Each What tells me the How. My filter? Maybe it ́s there, it has no purpose. We children speak without a filter and everyone sees us as innocent. I make innocence the culprit of all our ills..."
José Emilio Fuentes Fonseca (JEFF) is a Cuban artist born in 1974 in the province of Granma, graduated from the Higher Institute of Art. His training and work as plastic artist has been developed in the city of Havana, where he currently resides. Jeff at the age of 13 began to study art and his work has been consolidated as a reflection of his experiences.
His production is characterized by creative versatility. They manage to converge within their trajectory sculptural, pictorial, installation pieces, drawings and everything from a variety of formats that range from small to large dimensions.
Jeff's works remain impregnated with an expressive language so warm and diaphanous that they seem to refer with apparent innocence to the world of children. However, an evocative look of dissimilar trascendental themes for man prevails in each of his creations. José Emilio Fuentes Fonseca (JEFF) has been a participant in numerous personal and collective exhibitions since 1994. Throughout his short but intense career, Jeff has been recognized and awarded by important cultural centers and organizations in the country such as the Wilfredo Lam Contemporary Art Center, Havana Gallery, A.H.S Antonia...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Louisiana - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
La loge by Jean-Gabriel Domergue
By Jean-Gabriel Domergue
Located in New Orleans, LA
Jean-Gabriel Domergue
1889-1962 French
La loge
Signed (bottom right)
Oil on panel
Jean-Gabriel Domergue presents an elegantly seductive woman seated in a l...
Category
Early 20th Century Post-Impressionist Louisiana - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
2 Girl Study
By FPA Francis Pavy Artist
Located in Lafayette, LA
This small word depicts two women with different hairstyles. The heads of the women are painted black with a yellow outline and blue spots in the interior. The background
has red triangles with white centers and a block in the middle. The background is gold with green stripes around the triangles.
On the reverse it reads:© Francis Pavy 2002, all rights reserved, #16102, 2 girl...
Category
Early 2000s American Modern Louisiana - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Purple man with cityscape
By FPA Francis Pavy Artist
Located in Lafayette, LA
This small work, entitled Purple man with cityscape depicts a man with a purple face overlooking a cityscape with a red dusk sky.
the work measure 7 1/8 inches tall by 5 1/8 inches ...
Category
1990s Contemporary Louisiana - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Josianna, Jeune Femme au Ruban by Jean Gabriel Domergue
By Jean-Gabriel Domergue
Located in New Orleans, LA
Jean-Gabriel Domergue
1889-1962 French
Josianna, jeune femme au ruban
(Josianna, Young Woman With Ribbon)
Signed "Jean Gabriel Domergue" (lower left)
Oil on panel
A young French beauty known as Josianna is the subject of this work by Jean-Gabriel Domergue, and the oil on panel is a perfect example of the portraits for which the artist is renowned. His model embodies the concept of the la belle Parisienne: slender, swan-like women bearing an unmistakable grace and style. Domergue includes a delicate pink ribbon around her neck, suggesting a fashionable garment, set against a soft pastel-colored backdrop. The artist's oeuvre encompasses women from all facets of society, from aristocratic figures such as Liane de Pougy and Nadine, Baroness de Rothschild...
Category
20th Century Post-Impressionist Louisiana - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
The Green Lamp
By Andrew Lyman
Located in New Orleans, LA
In highly developed nations today there is a widespread alienation and loneliness that engenders fear and distrust, a restrictive self-righteousness of thought, and a dread of what-c...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Untitled (Petra #2)
By Andrew Lyman
Located in New Orleans, LA
In highly developed nations today there is a widespread alienation and loneliness that engenders fear and distrust, a restrictive self-righteousness of thought, and a dread of what-c...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Cleopatra, Having Reconsidered Suicide, Passes the Basket to Octavian
Located in New Orleans, LA
Michael Tole says of his work…
This painting reimagines the moment when Cleopatra contemplates suicide after her battlefield loss to Octavian. In this revisionist history, Cleopatra thinks better of suicide, and at the last minute redirects her servants to pass the basket of fruit with the asp on to the triumphant Octavian who sweeps in with his entourage. In this scene, Octavian reaches for an apple, triggering the asp to strike. This, like most of my recent work, reimagines historical, mythological, and literary motifs to destabilize the inherent power structures within those narratives. The style adopted is Rococo, which coincided with the rise of Colonialism. The style therefore relates to the historical narrative of this piece which shows the conquest and colonization of a colonial ruler.
In my current work, The Revisionist Histories, I am writing letters to art history, literature, and mythology in an attempt to reflect the social changes that have reshaped our society over the past century. As part of this agenda, I explore the evolution of gender norms, power dynamics, and representation within Western visual culture and what this implies for the negotiation between pleasure, justice, and our culturally specific discourse on beauty.
The seed for The Revisionist Histories was sewn when I caught a glimpse of my preteen daughters watching music videos on their iPad as I chopped veggies for dinner. Out of the corner of my eye I caught glimpses of music videos featuring Beyonce, Taylor Swift, Ariana Grande, Katy Perry, and Doja Cat gyrating across the tiny screen. A better parent might have snatched the iPad away, but I was overcome with hallucinatory visions of this pop diva...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
HUMANBIRD
By Starsky Brines
Located in New Orleans, LA
STARSKY BRINE’s paintings and drawings captivate audiences with their distinctive style and a recurring theme, the search for the nature of humanity. In his bold works, the artist fo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Crayon, Spray Paint, Acrylic
QUÉ NOS TRAE EL RIO
By Starsky Brines
Located in New Orleans, LA
STARSKY BRINE’s paintings and drawings captivate audiences with their distinctive style and a recurring theme, the search for the nature of humanity. In his bold works, the artist fo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Crayon, Spray Paint, Acrylic
The Dissidents: Discourse on the Golden Mean
Located in New Orleans, LA
Michael Tole says of his work…
This work draws a connection between the didactic moralizing tendencies of Neo Classicism (represented in the style of the painting) and Modernism (represented in the architectural setting). Though modern art eschews the naturalistic imagery used by Neo Classicists, both movements pursued a self-important, austere, self-consciously masculine aesthetic that they saw as synonymous with virtue. Set in the MoMA courtyard, a passel of men lounge about, regarding a golden statue which looks terribly out of place in this modernist vitrine. The uncomfortable architectural setting, prisonlike and cold, provides a foil for the odalisque-like young men sprawled on hard stone benches and paying homage to the central idol.
In my current work, The Revisionist Histories, I am writing letters to art history, literature, and mythology in an attempt to reflect the social changes that have reshaped our society over the past century. As part of this agenda, I explore the evolution of gender norms, power dynamics, and representation within Western visual culture and what this implies for the negotiation between pleasure, justice, and our culturally specific discourse on beauty.
The seed for The Revisionist Histories was sewn when I caught a glimpse of my preteen daughters watching music videos on their iPad as I chopped veggies for dinner. Out of the corner of my eye I caught glimpses of music videos featuring Beyonce, Taylor Swift, Ariana Grande, Katy Perry, and Doja Cat gyrating across the tiny screen. A better parent might have snatched the iPad away, but I was overcome with hallucinatory visions of this pop diva...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Les deux soeurs by Federico Zandomeneghi
By Federico Zandomeneghi
Located in New Orleans, LA
Federico Zandomeneghi
1841-1917 Italian
Les deux soeurs
(The two sisters)
Signed and dated "Zandomeneghi 95" (lower left)
Oil on canvas
Two sisters enjoy a quiet moment in a rich green landscape in this intimate oil on canvas from Federico Zandomeneghi. An Italian painter by birth who became a fixture in the Parisian Impressionist scene, Zandomeneghi is best remembered for his sentimental and affectionate scenes of women in both domestic and public spheres.
Zandomeneghi’s creative and technical prowess in composition is highlighted in this painting. The artist deftly frames the young pair in the lower register of the canvas, imbuing the work with a remarkably observational feel. The girls pensively gaze off to the right, lost in thought; Zandomeneghi allows the viewer to witness a natural moment of discussion and contemplation shared among the sisters. The soft palette employed by the artist gives the whole scene an atmospheric glow, with dappled rays of sunshine breaking through the lush foliage. Though the girls remain in the shaded areas of the landscape, Zandomeneghi’s skillful application of paint allows a brightness to remain nevertheless.
Federico Zandomeneghi was born in Venice to a long line of neoclassical sculptors. As if created to be an artist, Zandomeneghi began his artistic education early, enrolling in the Accademia di Belle Arti in Venice at just 15 years old before transferring to the Academy of Fine Arts in Milan. By 1862, the artist had arrived in Florence, where he became fast acquaintances with several Italian artists dedicated to executing landscape paintings en plein air. Zandomeneghi embraced the spontaneity, seeking to bring unparalleled luminosity to his works.
When Zandomeneghi arrived in Paris in 1874, he found kindred spirits...
Category
19th Century Impressionist Louisiana - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Bartender
By FPA Francis Pavy Artist
Located in Lafayette, LA
This painting is a picture of a Bartender pouring a drink at a bar. Behind him is a wall of business cards.
Signed on the reverse - Writing in in C...
Category
1990s Modern Louisiana - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Most Dangerous Game -- Nymphs and Satyrs Edition
Located in New Orleans, LA
Michael Tole says of his work…
The Most Dangerous Game: Nymphs and Satyrs Edition, is a conflation of the short story by Richard Connell and the mythological trope of nymphs and satyrs. In, The Most Dangerous Game, two men hunt each other for sport on a tropical island, creating the most epic, most toxically masculine sport hunt possible. In the classical nymph and satyr trope, lusty satyrs chase nubile nymphs through the woods in a game that varies from playful to predatory depending on the artist. In this revision, it is the nymphs that do the chasing, and they have made common cause with the hunters' quarry to fully turn the tables on the hunter/satyrs.
Formally speaking, the painting is an experiment in creating emphasis using color intensity rather than value. The central focal point is distinguished from its surroundings by setting off hot, high intensity colors from a halo of cool pastels.
In my current work, The Revisionist Histories, I am writing letters to art history, literature, and mythology in an attempt to reflect the social changes that have reshaped our society over the past century. As part of this agenda, I explore the evolution of gender norms, power dynamics, and representation within Western visual culture and what this implies for the negotiation between pleasure, justice, and our culturally specific discourse on beauty.
The seed for The Revisionist Histories was sewn when I caught a glimpse of my preteen daughters watching music videos on their iPad as I chopped veggies for dinner. Out of the corner of my eye I caught glimpses of music videos featuring Beyonce, Taylor Swift, Ariana Grande, Katy Perry, and Doja Cat gyrating across the tiny screen. A better parent might have snatched the iPad away, but I was overcome with hallucinatory visions of this pop diva...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Jimmi's Pancho
By FPA Francis Pavy Artist
Located in Lafayette, LA
This painting is entitled Jimmi's poncho. It depicts a central figure thinking about other people that appear in the foreground and background. He's wearing a poncho.
Signed on the ...
Category
1990s Modern Louisiana - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
PENTRIC STUDY #3
By FPA Francis Pavy Artist
Located in Lafayette, LA
THIS WORK IS ENTITLED PENTIC STUDY #3 . IT WAS PAINTED AS A STUDY FOR A LARGER COMMISSION THAT NEVER HAPPENED. IN THE TOP LEFT CORNER IS THERE A MARDI GRAS KING. THE CENTRAL FIGURE I...
Category
2010s Modern Louisiana - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Light as a Leaf
By Trenity Thomas
Located in New Orleans, LA
TRENITY THOMAS is a self-taught photographer who has also experimented with painting and sketching since grade school. As a photographer, he has worked ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Louisiana - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Resting Nude (Contemporary Figurative Oil Painting, Framed)
By James Wallace
Located in New Orleans, LA
A gorgeous nude from 1969 by James Wallace, showing masterful foreshortening (very difficult to pull off this convincingly) and beautifully sensual. One tiny repair visible on back c...
Category
1960s Modern Louisiana - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Late night Gig at the Offshore
By FPA Francis Pavy Artist
Located in Lafayette, LA
This painting is entitled white night gig at the offshore.
The image shows two men singing into the microphone. Behind them is a silver lattice. In the background there is three s...
Category
1990s Louisiana - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Red Cowboy
By Trenity Thomas
Located in New Orleans, LA
TRENITY THOMAS is a self-taught photographer who has also experimented with painting and sketching since grade school. As a photographer, he has worked in a myriad of genres includin...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Louisiana - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
POMPETUS OF LOVE
By FPA Francis Pavy Artist
Located in Lafayette, LA
INSPIRED BY THE LYRIC "POMPETUS OF LOVE " THIS PAINTING HAS IT EVE- LIKE CENTRAL FIGURE EATING AN APPLE. BEHIND HER IS A WALL OF FLAMES. IN THE BACKGROUND THERE IS A TREE WITH A SER...
Category
Early 2000s Modern Louisiana - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Cowboy Looks Right
By Trenity Thomas
Located in New Orleans, LA
TRENITY THOMAS is a self-taught photographer who has also experimented with painting and sketching since grade school. As a photographer, he has worked in a myriad of genres includin...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Louisiana - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Cowboy Looks Left
By Trenity Thomas
Located in New Orleans, LA
TRENITY THOMAS is a self-taught photographer who has also experimented with painting and sketching since grade school. As a photographer, he has worked ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Louisiana - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Flamingo and Cowboy
By Trenity Thomas
Located in New Orleans, LA
TRENITY THOMAS is a self-taught photographer who has also experimented with painting and sketching since grade school. As a photographer, he has worked in a myriad of genres includin...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Louisiana - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Looking Right on the Right Side
By Trenity Thomas
Located in New Orleans, LA
TRENITY THOMAS is a self-taught photographer who has also experimented with painting and sketching since grade school. As a photographer, he has worked ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Louisiana - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Cowboy ///
By Trenity Thomas
Located in New Orleans, LA
TRENITY THOMAS is a self-taught photographer who has also experimented with painting and sketching since grade school. As a photographer, he has worked in a myriad of genres includin...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Louisiana - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Together
By Trenity Thomas
Located in New Orleans, LA
TRENITY THOMAS is a self-taught photographer who has also experimented with painting and sketching since grade school. As a photographer, he has worked in a myriad of genres includin...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Louisiana - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Want You Around
By Trenity Thomas
Located in New Orleans, LA
TRENITY THOMAS is a self-taught photographer who has also experimented with painting and sketching since grade school. As a photographer, he has worked in a myriad of genres includin...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Louisiana - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Lemonade
By Trenity Thomas
Located in New Orleans, LA
TRENITY THOMAS is a self-taught photographer who has also experimented with painting and sketching since grade school. As a photographer, he has worked in a myriad of genres includin...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Louisiana - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Teenage Summer
By Trenity Thomas
Located in New Orleans, LA
TRENITY THOMAS is a self-taught photographer who has also experimented with painting and sketching since grade school. As a photographer, he has worked in a myriad of genres includin...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Louisiana - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Man and Dog
By Trenity Thomas
Located in New Orleans, LA
TRENITY THOMAS is a self-taught photographer who has also experimented with painting and sketching since grade school. As a photographer, he has worked in a myriad of genres includin...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Louisiana - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Loyalty
By Trenity Thomas
Located in New Orleans, LA
TRENITY THOMAS is a self-taught photographer who has also experimented with painting and sketching since grade school. As a photographer, he has worked in a myriad of genres includin...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Louisiana - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
The Kindling Gatherers, 1890 (knighted Royal Academy member, Antique Landscape)
By Alfred East
Located in New Orleans, LA
Sir Alfred East was both a full member of the Royal Academy and president of the Royal Society of British Artists, so his pedigree is impeccable. He be...
Category
Late 19th Century Impressionist Louisiana - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Campfire in August
By FPA Francis Pavy Artist
Located in Lafayette, LA
this small oil study depicts my iconic campfire. It's a work where I was experimenting with a wet-on-wet technique.
On the reverse it reads: #042016 ( the 54th work of 2016, CAMPFIRE IN AUGUST ( title)
©Francis X Pavy...
Category
2010s Modern Louisiana - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Blue at Dusk
By FPA Francis Pavy Artist
Located in Lafayette, LA
This is a Small 10" x 8" painting , oil on linen canvas entitled "Blue at Dusk" Signed on the reverse, it reads:
Blue at Dusk ( title )
#0062015 -- the 6th parting of the year 201...
Category
2010s Modern Louisiana - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
