Bold Roosters and Colorful Chickens by Pete Charles

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Pete Charles was born in 1959. He studied in South Korea where he became interested in wildlife subjects, including finely detailed farm animals and birds. He is particularly known for his chickens and roosters in their natural environment. Pete has become one of the finest painters in this genre. He employs lush, bright colors and thick pallet knife strokes, perfect for creating fluid feathers. And, the three dimensional qualities of his work produces a highly realistic effect. Charles's work is held in collections all over South America, Canada and the United States

Jung Yoon online art catalog

J.R. Mooney Galleries of Fine Art is proud to release the newest edition of the online catalog selections with the launch of Jung Yoon.  Yoon's classical but contemporary traditional landscapes can be purchased at both the Boerne and San Antonio gallery locations.

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How viewing art is affected by current disasters in media

“Memories”

 Clifton

 Oil on canvas

30” x 40”

$895

“Memories” by Clifton, a South Korean painter, hits home with a timely rendition for a self-reflective moment of grief and unfortunately impenetrable sorrow that mirrors the media news with a traditional mundane and trivial topic.

Busted bamboo stilts, ruggedly dispersed wooden slats and piers in shambles can be evidence of a monstrous disaster culled from the tsunami season, post earthquake calculations or global warming super-cells.  These are not positive memories of an older generation of long days of lore, but recent accolades of freshly imprinted destruction-tragic memories of additional devastation. Shimming water reflects the cerulean sky, with a minimal murkiness that adds the mysticism of the moment. As in today’s tragic tales of domestic and international terrorism, unfathomable annihilations of place, people and things, our immediate recognition is of depression for unseen populations affected by such circumstances.  Secured in the lower right corner, the bamboo pier lies unusable, metaphorically a being’s soul, damaged from affected monstrosities; a psyche flirting with PTSD- in a day and age of savageness, incomprehensible evils and unforeseen climate patterns.

©Gabriel Diego Delgado

Miniature Expressions

J. Gabriel

Quarters

12" x 16"

Oil on Canvas

$260.00

Expressionistic Abstract Art is a dime a dozen in an over-saturated art market. Pseudo-artists can mimic this replicate-able genre, movement and try to imitate the core of a coveted artistic and intrinsic spiritual intention. But, when intangible abstract discourse is found in the context of South Korean impressionists; it takes on a more interesting analysis. J. Gabriel, a relatively unknown international artist is a lone rogue painter delivering with a multitude of expressionistic paintings that are almost always deliberately  and slightly offset “t’s” and “x’s”- full of emotion in a limited palette of  reds whites, blues, blacks and grays.  Gabriel intentionally tones down the hues to deliver a punch of gestural mark making. A straightforward cross concerto helps present a simplistic compositional arraignment, minus any subliminal undercurrents of politics, parodies, and conceptual allotments found in a majority of contemporary artwork.  This fresh breath of paint thinner laced air exemplifies the reason simple works. However, juxtaposed on this artistically derived minimal hypothesis is the visual play of multilayered pigments of color.  Smeared, raked, and scraped paint by way of palette knife shows the artist’s quick movement, his jerk of instinctive mark making. The blood red peers through blues, violets and blacks as it invades the visual façade. Demanding attention the white is a spiritual rival to the crimson anger.  Accidental color combinations, amoebic shapes, and speckled blotches of opaque color make for a miniature success of a 1960’s era throwback.    

© Gabriel Diego Delgado

Art Consultant, JR Mooney Galleries

Quarters can be purchased at http://www.jrmooneygalleries.com/index.php?route=product/product&manufacturer_id=540&product_id=5063.

Sunset Near Llano

Sunset near Llano
Jung Yoon

Price: $2,500.00

Jung Yoon, a Korean artist of masterly proportions celebrates the landscapes of countryside beauty with a work titled: Sunset near Llano. A purview of bluebonnets and lush vegetation, Yoon throws a compositional loop our way. Off to the upper right we see a well worn beaten path, unimportant to the picture; a river mimics the reflective curve and “c” shape of road; creating an artistically haphazard “x”. Instead of the typical horizon line at the center of the composition, Yoon places the skyline higher up; the perspective is contradistinct from his general practice- constructing a bottom heavy pictorial that emphasizes the large field of flowering foliage.

However, minus all this efflorescence lays the heart of this painting- the upper quarter quadrant of seeping sunlight and majestic sun setting. Notice the canary speckled forest, spotted by the radiance emitting from under the cloud cover. Yoon, a maestro of illumination, plugs in more heavenly emotion into the baby blue sky and goldenrod brume than anywhere else in this impressionistic landscape painting. ©

 Gabriel Diego Delgado

Art Consultant

J.R. Mooney Galleries of Fine Art

Purchase "Sunset Near Llano" Artwork of J. Yoon from J.R. Mooney Galleries

Mountain Stream

D.S. Kim

Mountain Stream

48 x 36

Oil

D.S. Kim, a painter born in 1961 in South Korea has steadily increased his talent and reputation after receiving his degree from Dong A. University of Art.  Alternating between the traditional landscape paintings, Venetian street scenes and coastal seascapes, Kim has found a viable niche in his craft.  Mountain Stream encompasses a new vitality with his successful attempt to illustrate the rushing water of a mountain spring; as it roars over ‘choppy’ rapids.  Violent marks of white anchor the composition to the acute eye level stance.  Nature is addressed in a cool color palette, accented with truths of warm hue tinges. Slightly upward, the perspective exemplifies the angular viewing as Kim places the viewer downstream, in the middle of the river- looking upstream; locked in the rushing mountainous irrigate. Yellow ochres, orpiment, and golden radiance make the leaves, brush, and vegetation glow with a ‘qenyt’ and ‘nebw’ aurora of autumn brusque.

Balanced on the right and left, with an ominous waterfall in the central configuration, Kim has delivered on an Impressionistic painting that is both expressive in genre as well as sensibility.  Kim has epitomized the sometimes irregular changes of nature as temperatures drop, leaves fall, and life continues on- sight unseen.

-Gabriel Diego Delgado

Art Consultant

J.R. Mooney Galleries