Nude in Burnt Sienna, 48x 33″, mixed media on masonite

Cristopher Nolasco is an interesting artist. The beauty in his works is undeniable (BECAUSE I SAID SO!!!). The attention to detail of each figure and their enviorment and the intimacy of the artist with the material is visually set. Intimacy with the subject does not appear quite as prominent. His paintings appear to have flown easily and naturally. His use of mixed media should also be a point of focus. His works illustrate the technical side of painting and drawing which all student artists (everyone) should pay attention to and learn from.  

A thought…

The Massacre of the Innocents by Peter Paul Ruben.

Ruben is one of my most admired figurative painters. His classical style and rendering of the human form in such an idealized form is… great for lack of vocabulary. The way he paints the figures in such a beautiful organic form which moves the viewer through the painting, molding gracefully form and form/ contour to contour. To allow division and visual break between figures Ruben places geometric form in rigid framework of architecture to mirror a balance and comparison in structure and form. Subject matter as well though, appropriate for the time to the extent of religious ideas it is still emotionally jarring.  

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