El Adrianazo and Support the Living Artists

El Adrianazo (2021) - A contemporary abstract painting exploring the dripping technique.

At the bottom of the painting, you will notice the silhouette of a woman laying down. Although the painting is done in 2D, it feels as if it had a third dimension. 

If you wonder about the title... my childhood friend Adriana is also a fine artist. One day she told me "When things do not go the way I like, I grab gesso and erase everything!"

When I started this painting, the dripping was not going the way I wanted. So, instead of doing a gesso erase, I created a transparency and on top I painted again the way I wanted the composition to flow. This is the reason the painting seems to be in 3D because you see in darker lines the original dripping that I wanted to correct. I absolutely love the way it turned out. 

Thus, the title is a reference to my friend Adriana and her way of making things disappear. :-)

Size: 16x20" Medium: Acrylic paint Surface: canvas. Unframed. $720 Free shipping in the USA.

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Support Living Artists… The dead don’t need to make ends meet.I typed the phrase “support the living artists” on a search engine and I discovered many interesting posts, including advertising for t-shirts sold online with the “Support the living artists – the dead don’t need to eat.”

I understand that you might like art movements from the past. I do as well. My favorite periods are Impressionism and post-Impressionism. For the past, we have museums such as the Musée d’Orsai in Paris with an amazing collection of painters from these two movements. In San Diego, I enjoy going to Balboa Park and visit the many art museums we have there as well.

At home, I have many paintings from living Belgium painter Guy Moreaux, and living Australian painter Cindy Parsley, and of course some of my own. Although I have two reproductions from the French (dead) painter William-Adolphe Bouguereau, I did not buy them - someone gifted them to me. I would never buy a print or reproduction and spend a cent in framing it because I truly believe in supporting the living artist.

Of course you might think that this statement is a self-serving purpose. It would be if I have not bought paintings from other living artists but I did. I own eight Moreaux! 

These are some of the reasons why I want to help push this movement of supporting the living artists, besides the fact that the dead ones do not need the money, many did not leave descendants that would enjoy the profit of their posthumous sales, and auction houses are the ones that get the most from the sale of dead painters’ works.

I list the reasons below:

1. Art is an investment – If you buy from an artist that, like myself, participates in juried exhibitions and receives awards, then your painting will increase in value. A painter will either maintain its original value or increase. It will not decrease its value.
2. If you buy from a local artist, you are helping the local economy. Artists pay a lot of taxes each time we sell a painting, and those taxes go to support the local library, schools, road projects, etc.
3. When you hang the painting of a living artist on your wall, you can almost feel the story that inspired that painting. All of my paintings come with a Certificate of Authenticity that describes the inspiration or raison d’ tre for that particular painting.
4. There are many forgeries being sold in the art markets and even experts sometimes have a difficult time asserting the authenticity of a painting. When you buy from a living artist that provides a certificate of authenticity, you are receiving an indisputable proof for that painting.
5. When you buy a unique and original painting rather than a print or a reproduction, you are hanging something that nobody else has. This is the reason why my paintings are not available in print. I only sell the original so the owners of my paintings feel special because they have one of a kind.
6. When you buy the works from living artists, you are helping advance the future of the art world. I understand if you want to own a Picasso or a Pollock. If you can afford it, go for it (as long as you buy the original). At the same time, I would like to see in your home some paintings from a living artist as well. This way, you balance the scale. You also impact the career of the living artist.

I hope that you find any of these reasons compelling to go peruse my website or visit my art studio / gallery in Ramona, California, and hang one of my paintings on your walls. 
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