Jean Calogero

Mod Italian Surrealist Oil Painting Jean Calogero La Reve, Girl, Victorian Party

Milia Laufer, born Romania. From 1951 lived and worked in Safed. Together with her husband opened one of the earliest galleries in Israel, in Tiberias. Worked in watercolors and oils...

Jean Calogero (Italian, 1922-2001) 23 x 30. framed. 21.5 x 15 canvas. Hand signed Little girl at a party with flowers Calogero was born August 20, 1922 in Catania, Sicily. Self-taught Surreal Artist First exhibitions in 1945 in Sicily and Rome were very successful. He arrived in Paris in 1947 and studied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts. He is best known for his Surrealism and genre works. His paintings are dreamlike and visionary. They travel to an infinite space created by the artist through his memories, the sky and the sea so dear to him. In his paintings there are a few common themes: the masks with their dual dimensions that hide or shows only what you want, the profiles of the women, and the horsemen, drawn as the Sicilian tradition requires. He exhibited at the Gallery Hervé in 1951 and the following year he went to New York to present his show, then in 1953 he was invited to Los Angeles, where he returned two years later, and from where he regularly exhibited his works, and San Francisco. In 1954, Maximilien Gauthier devoted a book to him published by "The Gemini." The first exhibition in Japan was in 1965. He was awarded the Grand Silver Medal by the City of Paris in 1957. Calogero had countless exhibitions in Paris, in the fifties, plus the American exhibitions in New York (Associated American Artists, 1952), Los Angeles (James Vigevano Galleries, 1953) and then later in Japan and in major galleries in Italy. He lived and worked for many years in Paris and Italy. He died in 2001. Galerie Hervè, Parigi 1950. Associated American Artists - New York 1952. James Vigevano Galleries, Los Angeles 1953. Galerie Madsen, Parigi 1954/1960. Antologica, Tokyo 1965. Galleria La Robinia, Palermo 1969. Florida Gallery, Chicago 1970. Galleria Il Cavalletto, Catania 1971. Galleria De Rosa, Milano 1972. Galleria Pinacoteca, Roma; L'Incontro, Taranto 1973. Galleria Idea-Bellini, Firenze; David Galleries, Bari; Palazzo Melloni, L'incontro, Bologna; Galleria Schettini, Milano; Galleria Pinacoteca, Roma; Galleria La Meridiana, Verona; Pier della Francesca, Arezzo 1974. Galleria L'isolotto, Napoli; Pinacoteca, Roma; Galleria del Corso, Latina 1975. Galleria Michelangelo, Firenze; Pinacoteca, Roma 1977. Galleria Robert Philip, Parigi 1978. Galleria d'Arte Pinacoteca, Roma 1979. Centro L'Esagono, Lecce; Graziani Gallery, New York 1981. Chiesa di S. Silvestro, Tuscania; Museo d'Arte Moderna, Sessa Aurunca 1982. Galerie Hervè, Parigi 1983. Galleria l'Angolo, Catania; Galleria Arte Spazio, Sassari; Centro Il Faro, Taranto 1987. Galleria L'Esagono, Lecce 1988.Galerie Molière, Parigi; Nihon Garo, Nagoya, Giappone; Minako H. Gallery, Tokyo; Galleria del Viale Jonio, Catania 1989. Art Expo, New York; Axis Gallery, San Francisco; Galerie Axe, Parigi; Galerie Molière, Parigi 1990. Antologica, Palazzetto dell'Arte, Foggia; Galleria d'Arte Pinacoteca, Roma; Sinagrarte 91, Sinagra, Messina; La Magia di Taormina, Palazzo Corvaja, Taormina; Galleria Buonarroti, Siracusa 1991. Galleria Arte Oggi, Reggio Calabria; Galleria del Corso, Latina; Galleria Arte Spazio, Sassari; Galleria Art Gallery, Gela 1992. Galleria Profili d'Arte, Catania 1993. Europ'Art 94, Ginevra; Galleria Antarte, Messina 1994. Galleria Agorà, Palermo 1995. Comune di Aci Castello, Palazzo Russo, Aci Castello, Catania; Galleria Arte Spazio, Sassari 1996. Art Gallery, Gela; Chiesa di San Leonardo, Tuscania 1997. Pinacoteca Galleria Donini, Roma 1998. Galleria Perlini Arte, Reggio Calabria; Galleria Il Castello, Rovigo; Galleria Profili d'Arte, Catania; Pinacoteca Galleria Donini, Roma 1999. Gallery Robert Philippe: Jean Calogero, Alexandre Grig, Linda le Kinff, Jacques Lefort...

Framed 40 X 28 sight 32 X 20.5 inches. Bears his address verso Via Innocenzo n.57 Roma. (Rome, Italy Titled: L'Ultimo "Clown" Hand signed lower left and bears artists name verso. Alberto Trevisan (1919-1978), a listed Italian artist who specialized in Venetian watercolor...

Trompe-l'œil (French for "deceive the eye",) is an art technique that uses realistic imagery to create the optical illusion that the depicted objects exist in three dimensions. Forced perspective is a comparable illusion in architecture. Though the phrase, originates in the Baroque period, when it refers to perspectival illusionism, trompe-l'œil dates much further back. It was (and is) often employed in murals. Instances from Greek and Roman times are known, for instance in Pompeii. A typical trompe-l'œil mural might depict a window, door, or hallway, intended to suggest a larger room. A version of an oft-told ancient Greek story concerns a contest between two renowned painters. Zeuxis (born around 464 BC) produced a still life painting so convincing that birds flew down to peck at the painted grapes. A rival, Parrhasius, asked Zeuxis to judge one of his paintings that was behind a pair of tattered curtains in his study. Parrhasius asked Zeuxis to pull back the curtains, but when Zeuxis tried, he could not, as the curtains were included in Parrhasius's painting—making Parrhasius the winner. With widespread fascination with perspective drawing in the Renaissance, Italian painters of the late Quattrocento such as Andrea Mantegna (1431–1506) and Melozzo da Forlì (1438–1494), began painting illusionistic ceiling paintings, generally in fresco, that employed perspective and techniques such as foreshortening to create the impression of greater space for the viewer below. This type of trompe l'œil illusionism as specifically applied to ceiling paintings is known as di sotto in sù, meaning "from below, upward" in Italian. The elements above the viewer are rendered as if viewed from true vanishing point perspective. Well-known examples are the Camera degli Sposi in Mantua and Antonio da Correggio's (1489–1534) Assumption of the Virgin in the Duomo of Parma. Similarly, Vittorio Carpaccio (1460–1525) and Jacopo de' Barbari (c. 1440 – before 1516) added small trompe-l'œil features to their paintings, playfully exploring the boundary between image and reality. For example, a fly might appear to be sitting on the painting's frame, or a curtain might appear to partly conceal the painting, a piece of paper might appear to be attached to a board, or a person might appear to be climbing out of the painting altogether—all in reference to the contest of Zeuxis and Parrhasius. In a 1964 seminar, the psychoanalyst and theorist Jacques Lacan...

Mikel Alatza is an artist of tremendous talent, who, like his paintings, has no problem letting his rough edges show. Alatza has been a well-known part of the Venice art scene for the last ten years and has developed a strong and loyal following.   Alatza is also known for his early paintings commissioned by renowned German artist Martin Kippenberger between 1989 and 1990. Kippenberger later manipulated the works with painted frogs...

Taken from a statue of Julius Caesar by French sculptor Nicolas Coustou from 1669, artist John Hrehov places his copy in an elaborate labyrinth of greenery. The classical elements of sculpture, ionic column and greek temple are tied together by a bright green and blue palette in this perfectly balanced surreal scene. This piece is floated in a white wooden frame measuring 38h x 32w x 2d inches. John Hrehov Render to Caesar oil on canvas 36h x 30w in 91.44h x 76.20w cm JHR025 John Hrehov Education 1985 MFA-Painting, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 1981 BFA-Painting, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH. Solo Exhibitions 2017 John Hrehov, Paintings and Drawings. Tom Thomas Gallery, Indiana University East, Richmond, IN. 2012 Shades from White to Black, New Drawings. Denise Bibro Fine Art, New York, NY. 2011 John Hrehov: Charcoal. Indiana University - Purdue University Fort Wayne. 2009 John Hrehov: A Survey 1999-2009 Denise Bibro Fine Art, New York, NY. Paintings and Drawings. Seerveld Gallery, Trinity Christian College, Palos Heights, IL. 2004 John Hrehov: Drawings and Paintings. Denise Bibro Fine Art, New York, NY. 2002 Paintings. Denise Bibro Fine Art, New York, NY. 2001 Charcoal. Indiana University - Purdue University Fort Wayne. John Hrehov, Paintings and Drawings. Wood Street...

In this contemporary surrealist oil painting by Thomas Broadbent, a bison is depicted standing atop a white upholstered, black gold-gilded chaise lounge. Birch wood branches and sto...

Stella Jae Cosmos 2023 Oil on Canvas Size: 51.96 x 35.03 inches (132 x 89cm) Signed by hand COA provided Ref.: 924802-2112 ---------- Tags: #StellaJRichey...