Andrei Petrov

High Falls Redux - Abstract Landscape Painting in Yellow, Blue and Green

2015

Ruggero Vanni's Eruptions is a 64 x 52 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, brown, and red. There are clear references to the Romantic paintings of English artist William Turner, especially his paintings depicting sea storms. Vanni painting process is a combination of very wide and impulsive brush strokes, that he later redefines with very delicate and detailed interventions. For this reason, as the viewer approaches, the painting goes under a constant transformation of shapes and colors. 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...

Andrei Petrov's Ancient Aperture is a 40 x 48 inch abstract landscape oil painting on canvas. It is a lyric abstraction in green with an accent of red. The reference to a natural landscape is clearly there. Petrov works by applying layers of paint and then scraping off some parts to reveal the shades underneath. The play of transparencies, brushstrokes and lights brings to life an emotional and relaxing composition. Andrei Petrov is an American Artist of Russian origins. He lives and works in New York. He states "In my approach two roads...

Andrei Petrov's Time Transfixed is a 24 x 48 inch abstract landscape oil painting on canvas. It is a lyric abstraction in green with accents of blue and purple. The reference to a natural landscape is clearly there, almost like falling tree branches reflecting on the water surface of a lake. Petrov works by applying layers of paint and then scraping off some parts to reveal the shades underneath. The play of transparencies, brushstrokes and lights brings to life an emotional and relaxing composition. Andrei Petrov is an American Artist of Russian origins. He lives and works in New York. He states "In my approach two roads...

Andrei Petrov's "Brief Reply" is a 38 x 38 inch landscape abstract painting on canvas. The main colors are blue. The reference to a natural landscape is clearly there. Petrov works b...

Andrei Petrov's "Up On Cripple Creek" is a 20 x 30 inch abstract landscape painting on canvas. The main colors are blue, yellow, and green. The reference...

Evening Glow, Original Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Landscape Painting 8" x 16" x 0.75" (HxWxD) Oil on Canvas Hand-signed by the artist. An abstract impressionist landscape painting by artist April Moffatt...

Farewell in Misty Rain 醉别烟雨 Chinese artist Gao Xiao Yun is inspired by nature scenes of Suzhou city, China. He illustrates sceneries are filled with an unlimited sense of time and nature light...

Tracing 寻迹 Gao Yi is inspired by the essence of the words instead of the visible form of it. He attempts to find different meanings and expressions between the details of every motion of the brush. One could clearly see the clean and decisive brushstrokes of Chinese calligraphy being absorbed into layers of paint, textures and forms. Following his expanded years in studying the knowledge of Chinese calligraphy art...

Light In Your Own Good Time 暇光 Gao Yi is inspired by the essence of the words instead of the visible form of it. He attempts to find different meanings and expressions between the details of every motion of the brush. One could clearly see the clean and decisive brushstrokes of Chinese calligraphy being absorbed into layers of paint, textures and forms. Following his expanded years in studying the knowledge of Chinese calligraphy art...

Water and air are main elements in Gao Xiao Yun’s painting. He illustrates Suzhou water township in different seasons and times with his strong sense of color, lights and materials. ...

Water and air are main elements in Gao Xiao Yun’s painting. He illustrates Suzhou water township in different seasons and times with his strong sense of color, lights and materials. ...