Busacca Gallery

190cms x 190cms, oil on canvas by Pascal Roy, artist. The title of this painting is Red Coral for obvious reasons, I love red corals for there color and the shapes they have.In the composition we see also the profile of a human lying down, his body is made of rabbits and Goldfishes. An other color I love is turquoise, I use it in most of my work. Of course I had to use with red coral because they combine so well. I am an artist, painter from Canada but living in Mexico now. I consider myself a surrealist painter but lately my work has taken a psychedelic twist. I love the use of color and the sensual look of curved lines. 1963 born in Québec (Canada), lives and works in Cuernavaca (Mexico). He developed his taste for art while studying Architecture, Art, Decoration and Stage Design, between 1982 and 1993. In 1994 he moved to Mexico City where he started his artistic career. He now lives in the City of the eternal spring, Cuernavaca, Mexico. Pascal Roy , surrealist painter.

Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Painting

Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface (support base). In art, the term describes both the act and the result, which is called a painting. Paintings may have for their support such surfaces as walls, paper, canvas, wood, glass, lacquer, clay or concrete. Paintings may be decorated with gold leaf, and some modern paintings incorporate other materials including sand, clay, and scraps of paper. Painting is a mode of expression, and the forms are numerous. Drawing, composition or abstraction and other aesthetics may serve to manifest the expressive and conceptual intention of the practitioner. Paintings can be naturalistic and representational (as in a still life or landscape painting), photographic, abstract, be loaded with narrative content, symbolism, emotion or be political in nature. A portion of the history of painting in both Eastern and Western art is dominated by spiritual motifs and ideas; examples of this kind of painting range from artwork depicting mythological figures on pottery to Biblical scenes rendered on the interior walls and ceiling of The Sistine Chapel, to scenes from the life of Buddha or other scenes of eastern religious origin. What enables painting is the perception and representation of intensity. Every point in space has different intensity, which can be represented in painting by black and white and all the gray shades between. In practice, painters can articulate shapes by juxtaposing surfaces of different intensity; by using just color (of the same intensity) one can only represent symbolic shapes. Thus, the basic means of painting are distinct from ideological means, such as geometrical figures, various points of view and organization (perspective), and symbols. For example, a painter perceives that a particular white wall has different intensity at each point, due to shades and reflections from nearby objects, but ideally, a white wall is still a white wall in pitch darkness. In technical drawing, thickness of line is also ideal, demarcating ideal outlines of an object within a perceptual frame different from the one used by painters.