Monthly Archives: June 2007

Ld Lawrence Links Our Common Ancient Origins With Contemporary Life

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Ld LawrenceAppearing like graffiti superimposed over a background of runic and hieroglyphic inscriptions, paintings of Ld Lawrence are as unique as the artist’s name. Like poetry, they define explication, but somehow they suceed in symbolically linking our common ancient origins with contemporary urban life. “Her sources,” according to art critic Eleanor Heartney, include “…that class of expression in which the physical form of the sign for an object or concept is invested with something of its visual qualities. Scattered with simple symbols adapted from the worlds of science and nature, her paintings thus offer a portrait of the world as seen through the mind’s eye.”

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Outstanding Works by Antonio Henrique Amaral, Master Artist of Brazil

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Antonio Henrique AmaralSeveral outstanding examples of paintings by leading Brazilian artist Antonio Amaral are on the gallery web site under Artists, Masters. Photographs can only indicate the subject matter of works by Amaral, whose astonishing range of intriguing techniques and subtle blending of colors always prove fascinating.

One of the gallery’s new acquisitions, “Antagonic Fields or Fields of Opposites,” is an eight-foot 1992 canvas contrasting industrial smokestacks with layered fields of olive and rust that suggest crops. It appears to be bridging a series called “Greens and Smoke” and another major work, “Campo de Opostos,” illustrated in the monumental biographical catalog, “Antonio Henrique Amaral, Obra em Processo,” by Sullivan, Morais and Milliet.

To quote one of its authors, professor Edward J. Sullivan, “Amaral holds a pivotal position in the history of twentieth century Brazilian art.” His work “possesses many elements that link him to the constructivist urge that is so powerful not only in Brazilian art but in that of many other Latin American nations.”

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Drama, Emotion from Colombian Master Artist Alejandro Obregón

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Alejandro ObregónUnquestionably one of the most important Colombian artists of the century, Obregón was born in Barcelona in 1920 and grew up in Colombia and England before studying art in Boston. He returned to Barcelona when he was 27 to serve as the Colombian Vice-Consul for a year. When he was 28 he was named director of a leading art school in Colombia, but left the post after a year to live in Paris and to launch his career as an artist. He exhibited there and elsewhere in France as well as in Germany and Switzerland. Influenced by Picasso, Graham Sutherland and various Colombian masters, his unique style was apparent by 1955. In 1962 he was awarded first place in the most important annual salon in Colombia. In 1965 he represented his country with a pavillion of his own at the Ninth São Paulo Biennial, where he was presented the premier award for a Latin American artist, the Francisco Matarazzo Sobrinho Grand Prize. Much of his work features Colombian themes, such as a barracuda or condor, rendered in stylistic broad strokes of dramatic color. Street violence and other current events are the themes of a number of his last paintings.

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