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Love
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
This piece is part of a series called The Four Elements, and the idea was to portrait human emotions and aesthetics related to one of the four elements in this case Water.. And is called love because is a mother with her son.
Keywords: Figurative, expressionist, green, smile, happy
Artist Biography:
Fine Artist, muralist, illustrator and art teacher. I was born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic in 1972. I studied Fine Arts and Illustration at Altos De Chavón School Of Design (1992) and also got a bachelor degree in Fine Arts and Illustration at Parsons School Of Design (1994), NY. I’ve participated in several collective art shows and also five solo shows at Santo Domingo, Barcelona and Miami (Art Basel 2017); I’ve been working with others fellow artists doing urban art at the streets of several cities an small communities in the Dominican Republic since 2012, where I’ve done about 35 murals, I participated as international guest artist at the Art festival “Voz de Vida” at the city of Pasto, Colombia, I was a resident artist at Graniti Murales at Sicily, Italy, and painted with “transitando” at Madrid, Spain. In august 2018 I was invited to participate at Beyond Walls Lynn, in Boston, MA, and in 2020 I painted at Savannah, Georgia invited by The Stables Art...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Miami - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"I Got the Power" Painting 48" x 36" inch by Alina Shimova
By Alina Shimova
Located in Culver City, CA
"I Got the Power" Painting 48" x 36" inch by Alina Shimova
ABOUT
Alina Shimova is a young and ambitious artist Russian born, Miami based.
Her creative journey began at an early age...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Miami - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Art Deco Coulple Magazine Story Illustration, RedBook The Saturday Evening Post
By Seymour Alling Ball
Located in Miami, FL
Signed lower left: Seymour Ball Inscribed upper left: To Morris E Weiss with best wishes Seymour Ball" Matted not framed
Category
1930s Art Deco Miami - Figurative Paintings
Materials
India Ink, Watercolor, Illustration Board
Springtime Melody
By MABEL ROLLINS HARRIS
Located in Miami, FL
Mabel Rollins Harris was among other things an illustrator who specialized Children's art. Looking at her work today her pictures take on an almost surreal quality. She posed ...
Category
1920s American Realist Miami - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Portrait of a Charming Seated Woman Against Maroon Drapes
By Arthur Beecher Carles
Located in Miami, FL
Charming portait with Modernest colors.
Provenance: Christie's
Mercedes Matter, daughter of the artist, Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, New York. Private Collection. Sale: Skinner, Inc...
Category
1910s American Modern Miami - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Turkish Yataghan, Illustration of Baby, Collier's Cover
By Charles Twelvetrees
Located in Miami, FL
Baby caring a horse shoe on his shoulders reminiscent of the famous J. C. Leyendecker Baby covers for the Saturday Evening Post. This is a cover illustration/ painting for Collie...
Category
1930s American Realist Miami - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
Caught! Young Girl uses Doctors Bag to Patch Up her Doll - Alexander Sharpe Ross
By Alex Ross
Located in Miami, FL
Alexander Sharpe Ross is an artist of consummate skill and wit. This painting captures a young girl in a doctor's office without permission. A p...
Category
1950s Realist Miami - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Three Children Book Illustration - Female Illustrator - Turn of the Century
Located in Miami, FL
At a certain size, painting a small painting with precise and meticulous detail becomes an art in itself. So is the case of "Three Children" by English Childen's book illustrator Amy Millicent Sowerby...
Category
Early 1900s Art Nouveau Miami - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
The Complete Detective Cover, Pulp Magazine
By Harry Lemon Parkhurst
Located in Miami, FL
Harry Lemon Parkhurst
American, 1876–1962 was a pulp illustrator for crime and detective stories.
The works depicts an art thief caught at a pe...
Category
1930s American Realist Miami - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Love Story, Illustration for the Saturday Evening Post
By Bruce Bomberger
Located in Miami, FL
An illustrator for Time, Life, Look, True, True West, Saturday Evening Post, Good Housekeeping, Readers Digest, and others, he also painted for adverti...
Category
1950s American Realist Miami - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
"YEAR OF THE TIGER" Painting 51" x 35" inch by Alina Shimova
By Alina Shimova
Located in Culver City, CA
"YEAR OF THE TIGER" Painting 51" x 35" inch by Alina Shimova
PURE SOUL series
Shimova cares about the conservation of the fauna. She draws public attention to the problems of anim...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Miami - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Art Deco Cherry Dancer
By Marcel Vertès
Located in Miami, FL
Cherry Dancer
Marcel Vertes
French, 1895-1961
Beautiful girl juggling cherries is a beautiful and charming idea that is deftly rendered in a quick and loose style.
Work is round
De...
Category
1930s Art Deco Miami - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Salt Gold Sunset, Saturday Evening Post Story Illustration
By Bruce Bomberger
Located in Miami, FL
Saturday Evening Post sticker and editorial and production marks on verso.
This is more than just a simple semi-silhouette. It's a carefully crafted and wonderfully composed image. T...
Category
1950s Impressionist Miami - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Ink, Gouache
Night Pilgrim
By Yari Ostovany
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Yari Ostovany is an American abstract artist of Iranian origins. He has lived in Tehran, Cologne, Los Angeles, San Francisco and in Reno. He is currently based in New York City. His ...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Miami - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil
Portrait of a Slum Boy Ashcan School
By George Benjamin Luks
Located in Miami, FL
Signed upper right
Private Collection
Luks was famous for painting people from impoverished slum areas.
The work was most likely painted from life and portrays a youth haphazardly dressed. Luks describes the subject in quick rapid-fire brush...
Category
Early 1900s Ashcan School Miami - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Manuel Avila Camacho, Time magazine cover, - Journalist Portraiture
By Ernest Hamlin Baker
Located in Miami, FL
Journalist Portraiture. Gouache on board
Signed Lower Right matted to 17.75 x 16.75 inches. Archivally Matted Not Framed
He illustrated more than 300 covers for Time magazine a...
Category
1940s Realist Miami - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Film Noir Curse of the Golden Cross Magazine - Golden Age of Illustration
By Herbert Morton Stoops
Located in Miami, FL
Herbert Morton Stoops
American (1888 - 1948)
Curse of the Golden Cross
Magazine illustration, 1925
Oil on canvas
40 x 30 in.
Not signed
Work is framed
Category
1920s Post-Impressionist Miami - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Cowboy Hanging, Killer's Trail Illustration
By Victor Kalin
Located in Miami, FL
The old west depicted in a graphic and dramatic manner. Paperback Novel Cover Painting Original Art (Avon, 1963). Work has a matted image area of 12.5" ...
Category
1960s American Realist Miami - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Novelist Graham Green. Time magazine Cover Illustration
By Ernest Hamlin Baker
Located in Miami, FL
Work is nicely archival matted to 17.75 x 16.75 inches but not framed. Signed lower left
Published : Oct. 29, 1951 Cover, Time Magazine
Category
1950s Photorealist Miami - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
The House in the Woods (framed original painting on canvas)
Located in Aventura, FL
Acrylic painting on canvas with raised textured paint. Hand signed lower front by Janos Kardos. Canvas size 24 x 20 inches. Frame size 27 x 23 inches (black floating frame).
Art...
Category
2010s Contemporary Miami - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Monsta (original painting on canvas)
Located in Aventura, FL
Original acrylic painting on canvas. Hand signed and titled on verso by Todd Goldman. 1 of 9 original paintings created by Todd Goldman. Canvas is stretched. Canvas size: 24 x 24...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Miami - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Social Light (large original painting on canvas)
Located in Aventura, FL
Original acrylic painting on canvas.. Hand signed on front, titled on verso by Todd Goldman. Canvas is stretched. Canvas size: 36 x 24 inches.
Artwork is in excellent condition. ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Miami - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Miss Priss (large original painting on canvas)
Located in Aventura, FL
Original acrylic painting on canvas.. Hand signed on front, titled on verso by Todd Goldman. Canvas is stretched. Canvas size: 36 x 36 inches.
Artwork is in excellent condition. ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Miami - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
In The Bride's Shop, Lord & Taylor - Female Illustrator
By Carol Blanchard
Located in Miami, FL
Signed lower right
Printer's and designer's marks in margins
"Tool pearls in bodice, train & headband & ribbon under bosom."
Ex-collection photographer Frank Paulin...
Category
1950s Impressionist Miami - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
At the Airport
By Austin Briggs
Located in Miami, FL
Before there was Photorealism, there was Austin Briggs.
Done in 1951, this work has all the hallmarks of the 1970's fine art movement and more.
Briggs is using photographs as a refer...
Category
1950s Photorealist Miami - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Cub Book of Trucks. Title Page
By Art Seiden
Located in Miami, FL
Art Seiden was a children's book illustrator in New York City.
Seiden was a members of The Society of Illustrators
Category
1960s Contemporary Miami - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Pen, Permanent Marker, Graphite
Cover of Newsweek, Kruschev, Russia March 16th 1959
By Robert Engle
Located in Miami, FL
Cover of Newsweek, Kruschev, March 16th 1959
Works on Paper (Drawings, Watercolors etc.),
Gouache on board
12 x 12 in. (30.5 x 30.5 cm.)
Signed Lower left
Powerful study of Russian ...
Category
1950s Photorealist Miami - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Man on Floor Illustration
By Edwin Georgi
Located in Miami, FL
Man on Floor Illustration
ca. 1950–1959
Paintings, gouache on board
8 x 26.25 in. (20.3 x 66.7 cm.)
Modern
Magazine Story Illustration
Heritage, Morris Weiss CollectionSunning work w...
Category
1950s American Realist Miami - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Art Deco Glamour illustration, Golden Age of Hollywood
By Jaro Fabry
Located in Miami, FL
Caption: "He proposed this morning right
after the alarm clock went off."
From the Estate of Charles Martignette
Signed lower center
unframed
Category
1940s Art Deco Miami - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
The Oysters
By Jean Sanglar
Located in Miami, FL
Jean Sanglar was born in France in 1926. He draws with taste and talent from an early age, however, his family will only consider this a mere hobby. After studying law, he later took...
Category
Late 20th Century Neo-Expressionist Miami - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Governador
By Evelyne Ballestra
Located in Miami, FL
Governador is a painting made by Evelyne Ballestra, a French contemporary artist. This red tons expressionist painting is inspired from an island near Panama, with its palm trees, vi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Miami - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Downtown
By Evelyne Ballestra
Located in Miami, FL
Downtown is a painting made by Evelyne Ballestra, a French contemporary artist. This orange and blue tons expressionist painting is inspired from Lower Manhattan and its Twin Towers ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Miami - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Tulips
By Evelyne Ballestra
Located in Miami, FL
Tulips is a painting made by Evelyne Ballestra, a French contemporary artist. This piece is a part of a flower series, defined by their distinct bright colors, satiny, silky, vibrati...
Category
1990s Fauvist Miami - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
DOUBLE MARILYN - NORMA JEAN (RED)
By Steve Kaufman
Located in Aventura, FL
Hand signed by the artist on verso. Hand Painted Unique Silkscreen on Canvas. Artwork is in excellent condition. Canvas is not stretched. Certificate of authenticity included. All ...
Category
1990s Pop Art Miami - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
AT (RED ON YELLOW)
By Stephen Gamson
Located in Aventura, FL
Original painting. Hand signed and dated on verso by the artist. Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of authenticity included. All reasonable offers will be considered.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Miami - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
PORTRAIT II
By Stephen Gamson
Located in Aventura, FL
Original painting. Hand signed and dated on verso by the artist. Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of authenticity included. All reasonable offers will be considered.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Miami - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
9 panel gold and silver leaf installation of people painting- Morning Walk
By Gretchen Minnhaar
Located in Miami, FL
This metallic silver and gold 9 piece installation can be hung in any configuration or design. The city scene of abstracted people coming and going in various situations is both int...
Category
2010s Contemporary Miami - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Silver, Gold Leaf
The Optimas
By Lynne Naylor
Located in Miami, FL
Lynne Naylor is an Emmy Award winning, animator, artist, director, producer, and voice actress.
Filmography: SpongeBob SquarePants, Wander Over Yonder, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Fish Hooks, Breaking the Mold: The Re-Making of Mighty Mouse...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Miami - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Tribesmen with Headdresses
By Robert Riggs
Located in Miami, FL
"Robert Riggs was awarded the Gold Medal for Excellence by the New York Art Directors Club for ten consecutive years and received many additional awards." He was elected to the Society of Illustrators' Hall of Fame. His work is in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Philadelphia Museum of Fine Arts and the U.S. Library of Congress. Riggs's compositons are "monumental" Walt Reed - work is unframed. - Riggs was a Gay Artist.
Category
1940s American Realist Miami - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Tempera
Ofrenda CVIII 108
Located in Miami, FL
Ofrenda CVIII 108, 2013
Unique Piece
Acrilico sobre tela
70 x 70 x cm
27.5 x 27.5 in.
About the Artist
Born in New York on January 13, 1935. In 1941 he moved with his family to Car...
Category
2010s Constructivist Miami - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Carmelo Niño, Carolina niña con Marina, 2021, 350 x 200 cm, 137.7 x 78.7 in.
By Carmelo Niño
Located in Miami, FL
Carmelo Niño
Carolina niña con Marina, 2021
Acrylic on canvas
350 x 200 cm 137.7 x 78.7 in.
The work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity signed by the artist.
Carmelo Niño, a Venezuelan artist originally from Maracaibo, Zulia State, an oil-producing region of Venezuela, is today one of the most outstanding painters in the plastic arts landscape in the country. Many years have passed since his birth in 1951 to the present, when he inaugurates this August 2022, a major exhibition at the Ascaso Gallery in Miami, with paintings from different dates resulting from the permanent and daily work of reflection, physical and intellectual, that he has always pursued in his creative life. Without neglecting a single moment of day-to-day life to be in front of the medium-sized canvas on the easel or of larger canvas hanging on a wall, he works in his large studio in the area of El Junco, outside the capital city of Caracas, surrounded by lush green vegetation, with a wonderful climate of pleasant temperature and poetic mist that invites to the reverie and glorification of his life as a painter. From a very early age Niño and his family discovered his vocation for drawing, a discipline in which he showed a special disposition and talent. From this moment on he dedicates his life to art, to the practice of painting, starting from a fantastic and strange world of fantasy, close to surrealism, unfailingly influenced by the circus of fantasy owned by his mother and a musician father.
These circumstances will shape the artist's life. His traces and influences from the beginning will be present in his creative work, especially through the memories of the infinite curiosity to look, touch and be enraptured by the strange furniture and objects from his mother's circus that he knew were deposited in a room of the house.
This universe of fantasy will leave an indelible mark on his subconscious and will serve as the thematic and artistic support for all his work. In an interview conducted by the critic Roberto Montero Castro in 1977, Carmelo Niño states, "the symbols of my painting come from the everyday life".
His life has been one of continuous work and effort. At the age of fifteen he enrolled in the School of Arts of Maracaibo, graduated three years later, 1966, and immediately, with a scholarship, he travelled to Spain, took a few courses at the San Fernando Academy in Madrid, strengthened his preparation in art workshops and in frequent visits to the big museums of this European capital. With a sensitive gaze he penetrates the mysteries of masterpieces of the great artists who have made the universal history of art. His life as a painter has been intense, of intense study, preparation and work. With much composure and modesty he talks about his life and his artistic production, recognized not only in Venezuela, but also internationally. His participation in exhibitions began in 1969 and as early as 1970 he held his first individual exhibition at the Fine Arts Center of Maracaibo. From these dates onwards successes started to come, with the participation in collective and individual exhibitions, in Venezuela and abroad, as well as the awards from 1971, when he won the Scholarship Award at the First National Salon of Young Artists in Maracay, Aragua State; in 1972 he was awarded the Second Prize at the Regional Salon of Maracaibo. 1975 is the year of awards, he received the First Prize at the IV Salon of Young Artists in Caracas; the Aurelio Rodriguez Award at the IV Avellan Salon in Caracas and the First Prize at the Salon of Young Zulian Artists in Maracaibo; he also participated in the group exhibition of History of Painting in Venezuela, at Casa de Las Americas, Havana, Cuba; and in 1976 he was invited by Jose Gomez Sicre to take part in the exhibition of Venezuelan painting...
Category
2010s Surrealist Miami - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Carmelo Niño, Amantes con escena, 2019, 140 x 200 cm, 55.1 x 78.7 in.
By Carmelo Niño
Located in Miami, FL
Carmelo Niño
Amantes con escena, 2019
Acrylic on canvas
140 x 200 cm 55.1 x 78.7 in.
The work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity signed by ...
Category
2010s Surrealist Miami - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Carmelo Niño, La Jaula, 2018, 200 x 200 cm, 78.7 x 78.7 in.
By Carmelo Niño
Located in Miami, FL
Carmelo Niño
La Jaula, 2018
Acrylic on canvas
200 x 200 cm 78.7 x 78.7 in.
The work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity signed by the artist...
Category
2010s Surrealist Miami - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Carmelo Niño, Amantes con escena, 2019, 200 x 400 cm, 78.7 x 157.4 in.
By Carmelo Niño
Located in Miami, FL
Carmelo Niño
Amantes con escena, 2019
Acrylic on canvas
200 x 400 cm 78.7 x 157.4 in.
The work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity signed b...
Category
2010s Surrealist Miami - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Carmelo Niño Celebrando a Kiefer I, 2021, 200 x 126 cm, 78.7 x 49.6 in.
By Carmelo Niño
Located in Miami, FL
Carmelo Niño
Celebrando a Kiefer I, 2021
Acrylic on canvas
200 x 126 cm 78.7 x 49.6 in.
The work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity signed by the artist.
Carmelo Niño, a Venezuelan artist originally from Maracaibo, Zulia State, an oil-producing region of Venezuela, is today one of the most outstanding painters in the plastic arts landscape in the country. Many years have passed since his birth in 1951 to the present, when he inaugurates this August 2022, a major exhibition at the Ascaso Gallery in Miami, with paintings from different dates resulting from the permanent and daily work of reflection, physical and intellectual, that he has always pursued in his creative life. Without neglecting a single moment of day-to-day life to be in front of the medium-sized canvas on the easel or of larger canvas hanging on a wall, he works in his large studio in the area of El Junco, outside the capital city of Caracas, surrounded by lush green vegetation, with a wonderful climate of pleasant temperature and poetic mist that invites to the reverie and glorification of his life as a painter. From a very early age Niño and his family discovered his vocation for drawing, a discipline in which he showed a special disposition and talent. From this moment on he dedicates his life to art, to the practice of painting, starting from a fantastic and strange world of fantasy, close to surrealism, unfailingly influenced by the circus of fantasy owned by his mother and a musician father.
These circumstances will shape the artist's life. His traces and influences from the beginning will be present in his creative work, especially through the memories of the infinite curiosity to look, touch and be enraptured by the strange furniture and objects from his mother's circus that he knew were deposited in a room of the house.
This universe of fantasy will leave an indelible mark on his subconscious and will serve as the thematic and artistic support for all his work. In an interview conducted by the critic Roberto Montero Castro in 1977, Carmelo Niño states, "the symbols of my painting come from the everyday life".
His life has been one of continuous work and effort. At the age of fifteen he enrolled in the School of Arts of Maracaibo, graduated three years later, 1966, and immediately, with a scholarship, he travelled to Spain, took a few courses at the San Fernando Academy in Madrid, strengthened his preparation in art workshops and in frequent visits to the big museums of this European capital. With a sensitive gaze he penetrates the mysteries of masterpieces of the great artists who have made the universal history of art. His life as a painter has been intense, of intense study, preparation and work. With much composure and modesty he talks about his life and his artistic production, recognized not only in Venezuela, but also internationally. His participation in exhibitions began in 1969 and as early as 1970 he held his first individual exhibition at the Fine Arts Center of Maracaibo. From these dates onwards successes started to come, with the participation in collective and individual exhibitions, in Venezuela and abroad, as well as the awards from 1971, when he won the Scholarship Award at the First National Salon of Young Artists in Maracay, Aragua State; in 1972 he was awarded the Second Prize at the Regional Salon of Maracaibo. 1975 is the year of awards, he received the First Prize at the IV Salon of Young Artists in Caracas; the Aurelio Rodriguez Award at the IV Avellan Salon in Caracas and the First Prize at the Salon of Young Zulian Artists in Maracaibo; he also participated in the group exhibition of History of Painting in Venezuela, at Casa de Las Americas, Havana, Cuba; and in 1976 he was invited by Jose Gomez Sicre to take part in the exhibition of Venezuelan painting...
Category
2010s Surrealist Miami - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Carmelo Niño, Arlequín azul con ángel, 2015, 177x 124 cm, 69.6 x 48.8 in.
By Carmelo Niño
Located in Miami, FL
Carmelo Niño
Arlequín azul con ángel, 2015
Acrylic on canvas
177x 124 cm 69.6 x 48.8 in.
The work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity signe...
Category
2010s Surrealist Miami - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Carmelo Niño, Lechera, 2014, Oil on canvas, 207 x 149 cm, 81.4 x 58.6 in.
By Carmelo Niño
Located in Miami, FL
Carmelo Niño
Lechera, 2014
Oil on canvas
207 x 149 cm
81.4 x 58.6 in.
The work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity signed by the artist.
Carmelo Niño, a Venezuelan artist originally from Maracaibo, Zulia State, an oil-producing region of Venezuela, is today one of the most outstanding painters in the plastic arts landscape in the country. Many years have passed since his birth in 1951 to the present, when he inaugurates this August 2022, a major exhibition at the Ascaso Gallery in Miami, with paintings from different dates resulting from the permanent and daily work of reflection, physical and intellectual, that he has always pursued in his creative life. Without neglecting a single moment of day-to-day life to be in front of the medium-sized canvas on the easel or of larger canvas hanging on a wall, he works in his large studio in the area of El Junco, outside the capital city of Caracas, surrounded by lush green vegetation, with a wonderful climate of pleasant temperature and poetic mist that invites to the reverie and glorification of his life as a painter. From a very early age Niño and his family discovered his vocation for drawing, a discipline in which he showed a special disposition and talent. From this moment on he dedicates his life to art, to the practice of painting, starting from a fantastic and strange world of fantasy, close to surrealism, unfailingly influenced by the circus of fantasy owned by his mother and a musician father.
These circumstances will shape the artist's life. His traces and influences from the beginning will be present in his creative work, especially through the memories of the infinite curiosity to look, touch and be enraptured by the strange furniture and objects from his mother's circus that he knew were deposited in a room of the house.
This universe of fantasy will leave an indelible mark on his subconscious and will serve as the thematic and artistic support for all his work. In an interview conducted by the critic Roberto Montero Castro in 1977, Carmelo Niño states, "the symbols of my painting come from the everyday life".
His life has been one of continuous work and effort. At the age of fifteen he enrolled in the School of Arts of Maracaibo, graduated three years later, 1966, and immediately, with a scholarship, he travelled to Spain, took a few courses at the San Fernando Academy in Madrid, strengthened his preparation in art workshops and in frequent visits to the big museums of this European capital. With a sensitive gaze he penetrates the mysteries of masterpieces of the great artists who have made the universal history of art. His life as a painter has been intense, of intense study, preparation and work. With much composure and modesty he talks about his life and his artistic production, recognized not only in Venezuela, but also internationally. His participation in exhibitions began in 1969 and as early as 1970 he held his first individual exhibition at the Fine Arts Center of Maracaibo. From these dates onwards successes started to come, with the participation in collective and individual exhibitions, in Venezuela and abroad, as well as the awards from 1971, when he won the Scholarship Award at the First National Salon of Young Artists in Maracay, Aragua State; in 1972 he was awarded the Second Prize at the Regional Salon of Maracaibo. 1975 is the year of awards, he received the First Prize at the IV Salon of Young Artists in Caracas; the Aurelio Rodriguez Award at the IV Avellan Salon in Caracas and the First Prize at the Salon of Young Zulian Artists in Maracaibo; he also participated in the group exhibition of History of Painting in Venezuela, at Casa de Las Americas, Havana, Cuba; and in 1976 he was invited by Jose Gomez Sicre to take part in the exhibition of Venezuelan painting...
Category
2010s Surrealist Miami - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Carmelo Niño, Arlequin casi nocturno, 2012, Oil on canvas, 145 x 125 cm
Located in Miami, FL
Carmelo Niño
Arlequin casi nocturno, 2012
Oil on canvas
145 x 125 cm
57 x 49.2 in.
"Arlequin casi nocturno" is a painting by Venezuelan artist Carmelo Ni...
Category
2010s Contemporary Miami - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Carmelo Niño, El Rapto, Acrylic on Canvas, 2019
By Carmelo Niño
Located in Miami, FL
"El rapto" is a painting by Venezuelan artist Carmelo Niño (b. 1951). Since he first appeared in the local scene, with his early individual exhibitions at...
Category
2010s Contemporary Miami - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Carmelo Niño, Arlequín en rojo, Acrylic on Canvas, 2021
By Carmelo Niño
Located in Miami, FL
"Arlequín en rojo" is a portrait painting, acrylic on wood d by Venezuelan artist Carmelo Niño (b. 1951). Since he first appeared in the local scene, wit...
Category
2010s Contemporary Miami - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Carmelo Niño, Dama con Icaro, Acrylic on Canvas, 2003
By Carmelo Niño
Located in Miami, FL
"Dama con Icaro" is a portrait painting, acrylic on wood d by Venezuelan artist Carmelo Niño (b. 1951). Since he first appeared in the local scene, with h...
Category
Early 2000s Miami - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Wood, Acrylic