Saturday, May 10, 2014

Found Board Acrylic, 24 x 30 St Andrew after Jusepe de Ribera

The nature of our spirituality is a theme in many of my paintings.  Are we spiritual beings having a physical experience?  This is an acrylic painting of St Andrew after Jusepe de Ribera's masterpiece on a piece of plywood I found in the back yard.  It was painted with supervision by Miguel Cortinas the head of the Art Department at UIW.  I saw the original painting in Houston and it seems to me to pose the question well of whether we are earthly or  spiritual -- or torn between the two.  We seem most likely to be the latter with the devil looking over our shoulder.  

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