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"¡Belleza esta en la calle!" (Beauty is in the Street!) Painting
United States
Painting, Oil on Other
Size: 14 W x 16 H x 1 D in
Ships in a Crate
About The Artwork
My most recent oil painting, "¡La belleza esta en la calle!" (Beauty is in the Street!), was premiered at the "Wishes and Dreams" exhibition at Avenue 50 Studio in Highland Park, Los Angeles California in December 2015. Curated by esteemed L.A. painter Raoul De la Sota, the group show featured the works of sixteen artists who presented in their artworks "the hopes, aspirations, dreams, memories, and wishes the participants have for themselves or for the world." And what is my wish, my dream? It is that we all end our conformist, hyper-consumerist, pessimistic, work-a-day-world apocalyptic thinking, to become idealists, artists, and utopians. In short, the same dream I have always embraced. As an oil painting ¡La belleza esta en la calle! (Beauty is in the Street!) echoes my philosophy that a better world is possible only when the multitudes begin to imagine it, and then fill the avenues to create it. The title of my oil painting came from a street poster produced in 1968 Paris by an anonymous member of the worker and student run art cooperative known as the Atelier Populare (Popular Workshop). But I do not live in Paris, France and it is not 1968; I am a painter living in the megalopolis of Los Angeles, California during the dawn of the 3rd Millennium. Because L.A. County today has the largest Latino population of any county in the United States (some 49%), I chose a young iconoclastic Latina as a symbol for the free spirits that will take to the streets to change the world. The painting has its title in Spanish for the same reason. "Beauty is in the Street!" is professionally framed in a distressed, thick black wooden frame, two inches in width and flecked with dark red paint to mirror the painting. The artwork "floats" in its frame, with a quarter inch space between the painting and its frame.
Details & Dimensions
Painting:Oil on Other
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:14 W x 16 H x 1 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:Not applicable
Packaging:Ships in a Crate
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Ships From:United States.
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United States
I was born in Los Angeles, California in 1953, where I continue to live and work as professional artist. A painter and printmaker who creates images based on social observation and empathy for common people, I am a proponent of a new Social Realism for the 21st century. I favor craft, skill, beauty, draftsmanship, and profound narrative in art, and strive to create works that convey humanist concerns and a sense of the spiritual. I have been deeply influenced by the likes of Goya, the Mexican Muralists, the German Expressionists, the American Social Realist School of the 1930s and 1940s, and the Chicano Arts movement of the late 1960s. My commitment to figurative realism and universal themes of human solidarity and compassion are the perfect counterbalance to these chaotic times. In 2004 I founded the popular web log "Art for a Change," where I write about the intersection of art and politics; you can view my blog here: www.art-for-a-change.com/blog
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