Andrei Petrov

Ancient Aperture - Green Painting, abstract landscape painting, expressionist

2022

Ruggero Vanni's Birth of Light is a 60 x 48 inch abstract gestural oil painting. It is an abstract landscape of vigorous brushstrokes and light, with a strong luminous central focus. The main colors are orange, yellow, and rust. There are clear references to the masters of the Hudson River School, also known as Luminism, as well as the Romantic paintings of English artist William Turner. Vanni states, "My works allude to natural phenomena, in a raw state, devoid of the limiting constrictions of literal representation. Nature is there, as a landscape, a view looking up in the air, or plunging down underwater. Imagery kept on the edge of recognition, so the final association is created in the mind. Contrasts of matter, color, light, are created to provoke emotional responses. In the large paintings the atmospheric composition is built by raised brushstrokes shattered and reassembled to reveal an underlying struggle. In the smaller works paper is cast tumultuously as a counterpoint to its inherent frailness. References to the history of painting are multiple and mixed: Venetian impasto and glazing, Luminist light, Abstract Expressionist texture, Baroque perspective. It is important to avoid mannerism, metabolize the suggestions and integrate them with empirical visual stimuli. Dissecting responses to everyday experiences into light, color, matter. There is no intent to escape reality, but to create a visual experience that communicates directly with our psyche; open to be reinterpreted continuously through our own evolution and the changing times." Ruggero Vanni was born in Paris. He studied painting from 1973 to 1978 at the Istituto d’Arte in Rome, Italy, under the guidance of Italian artist Michelangelo Conte...

Ruggero Vanni's Summer Swirls is a 64 x 52-inch abstract gestural oil painting. The main colors are red and orange. The artist alternates very gestural and instinctive large brush strokes, with delicate...

Ruggero Vanni's "Matter and Antimatter" is a 52 x 76-inch abstract expressionist painting. Yellow, blue, and rust colors collide to create a tempestuous sky filled with disintegratio...

Ruggero Vanni's Conflictio Confluens II (Convergence of Conflicts in Latin) is a 46.5 x 52 inch abstract gestural oil painting. It is a landscape of colors and light, with a strong a...

Impressive early American modernist abstract surreal landscape oil painting. Framed. Oil on canvas. Signed. Image size, 36H by 36L.

"Un Soir à Atakama" by Gérard Stricher (b. 1948) portrays the surreal beauty of the Atacama Desert at sunset. Stricher's vivid use of color and texture captures the ethereal quality ...

"Nicoya Street" is an abstract expressionist painting of the artist's travels to Costa Rica. Darius Yektai was born in Southampton NY, in 1973. He lives and works out of his home a...

Incredible mid century abstract expressionist oil painting by Ken Munowitz. Oil on canvas. Framed.