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ROBERT VENAFRO
Canada
Artist highlights
- Featured in gallery curations
- Works on commission
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Artwork details
- Medium : Oil on Canvas
- Other details : Artwork on supported wooden frame. Ready to hang. Framing on request.
- Dimensions : 12x48in
About this artwork
This panoramic study, executed entirely with the palette knife, serves as a cinematic window into a wildflower meadow. A low horizon allows an atmospheric sky to sweep across the canvas, creating a sense of vast, open air.
Rooted in the philosophy of Ipseity, this work is a byproduct of selfhood in the artist's seventh decade. Grounded by a foundation of earthy raw umber and burnt sienna, a riot of wildflowers emerges through vigorous, structural… impasto. The exclusive use of the knife creates sharp edges and multidimensional peaks that mimic the raw vitality of nature.
Because this work is entirely knife-painted, the surface is exceptionally three-dimensional. It is best displayed with strong side-lighting; this allows light to catch the sculpted "crests" of the oil, creating shifting shadows that bring the meadow to life throughout the day.
Rooted in the philosophy of Ipseity, this work is a byproduct of selfhood in the artist's seventh decade. Grounded by a foundation of earthy raw umber and burnt sienna, a riot of wildflowers emerges through vigorous, structural… impasto. The exclusive use of the knife creates sharp edges and multidimensional peaks that mimic the raw vitality of nature.
Because this work is entirely knife-painted, the surface is exceptionally three-dimensional. It is best displayed with strong side-lighting; this allows light to catch the sculpted "crests" of the oil, creating shifting shadows that bring the meadow to life throughout the day.
ROBERT VENAFRO
Canada
Credentials
- Featured in gallery curations
- Works on commission
I paint what I feel. After a life in finance, the palette knife became my primary way of speaking, plainly, without ornament. My subject is land, sea, and sky, held less as record than as memory of standing inside them.
I work in oils, building surface until it holds weight, something to be touched as much as seen, according to those who collect my work. Whether the canvas is small enough to hold in one hand or large enough to walk into, the intention doesn't change: a place that is as much interior as it is geographical.
In my mid-70s, I look for Self in the work, a thing being entirely itself, answerable to no one. The work says what I couldn't otherwise say. What you find in it is yours.
www.venafrobob.com
I work in oils, building surface until it holds weight, something to be touched as much as seen, according to those who collect my work. Whether the canvas is small enough to hold in one hand or large enough to walk into, the intention doesn't change: a place that is as much interior as it is geographical.
In my mid-70s, I look for Self in the work, a thing being entirely itself, answerable to no one. The work says what I couldn't otherwise say. What you find in it is yours.
www.venafrobob.com
ROBERT VENAFRO
Cantata 12
$2,010
