The late Robert Venosa was an artist from the USA. He lived and worked in Boulder, Colorado with his wife and artist Martina Hoffmann. The Fantastic Realism Art of Robert Venosa employs mythological elements set in a Fantastic and futuristic context to express a highly individualistic passion. Associated with artists as H.R. Giger, Mati Klarwein and Salvador Dali, his work has been exhibited worldwide, and is represented in major collections, including those of noted museums, rock stars and European aristocracy. His art has been the subject of three books, the most recent being Illuminatus, with text by Terence McKenna. Venosa also worked in Cadaques, Spain.
Venosa studied painting technique with Mati Klarwein in New York, and Ernst Fuchs in Vienna, both of whom are proponents of the Misch Technique (also known as the Master’s Technique) discovered by the seventeenth-century Flemish masters Hubert and Jan Van Eyck, which utilizes the system of painting in tempera and oil glazes.
This technique is perfect for painting the crystalline worlds that Venosa envisioned: Light goes through the surface oil glazes, bounces off the white tempera underpainting and comes back out hitting the eye with the illusion of transparent depth.
As with most artists, Venosa took elements of what Fuchs and Klarwein taught and added his own personal touch to arrive at a style – ever evolving – the uniqueness of which is evident in the catalog of his work.
His vision and art continue to be an inspiration for artists and to future generations discovering his work for the first time.
Robert Venosa
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