Sunset on the Water with Painter, Matt Thomas

Matt Thomas was born in Sea-Hung City, Korea in 1959. He began early in life to show an interest in art. Beginning with pencil sketches of nudes and landscapes at age fifteen, he developed his talent for art. By the age of nineteen, he had switched over to oil painting and was successful in developing many landscapes. Matt studied art at Korean Art Studio and graduated in 1977.

Thomas derives influence and inspiration from the Korean impressionistic, realistic painters and some of the early folk artists like Jung-Sub Lee and Su-Kun Park. Each of his works are carefully crafted with attention to the details of craftsmanship, perspective, color, contrast, movement, and balance. There is nothing mysterious about my objective in a painting. 

Quite simply, I try and hold a moment in a time and a location of interest to me and enhance the mood of the scene by use of color, light, and placement. I hope the view will share that feeling and perhaps review his or her appreciation of the beauty that surrounds us daily in this world.

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Pictuersque Sunrise on the Canal with Richard

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"Stormy Coast" by famed painter, Jose Vives-Atsara available at J.R. Mooney Galleries

The legend Jose Vives-Atsara. A perfect painting called "Stormy Coast" to post this week with all this bad weather. This painting is a wonderful example of the artist's use of the palette knife; full of drama and energy, but not the typical Texas landscape.

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Jose Vives-Atsara was born in Vilafranca del Panades in the Catalonian region of Spain on April 30, 1919. He began painting at the age of eleven and had his first one man show at the age of fourteen. He studied art at Saint Raymond College and the School of Fine Arts in Barcelona. In his life, he often referenced nature itself as his most inspirational teacher. Mr. Vives-Atsara came to San Antonio in 1956. Within twenty years, he bacame one of Texas most distinguished artists. His use of a palette knife in painting allowed for blending rich, pure pigments into a powerful statement of color directly on the canvas. This style produced works that are distinctively Vives-Atsara. Jose Vives-Atsara is represented in such collections as the Museum of Modern Art, Spain; Fort Worth Art Museum, Texas; His Royal Highness Juan Carlos, King of Spain; the Vatican; and the State Capitals of many of the southern United States. His work is also in many private collections in the United States, Spain, Mexico, and Venezuela.

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