Original artwork description:

"Sagrada Familia Illuminated" is a textural impressionist stylized cityscape impasto palette knife oil painting on stretched canvas 25x30 cm (10x12 inches).

This painting captures La Sagrada Familia beautifully illuminated at night, reflecting in the water, beneath a magical red moon who instill a surreal feel to the composition...

Describing Sagrada Familia, art critic Rainer Zerbst said, "It is probably impossible to find a church building anything like it in the entire history of art" and Paul Goldberger called it, "The most extraordinary personal interpretation of Gothic architecture since the Middle Ages."

I painted this work in impasto technique, rendered in a stylized manner, with thick textures of oil paint applied with brushes and palette knives.

I have always loved to approach my urban paintings in a myriad of ways. I enjoy stylizing architectural forms in various manners. This has always been one of my goals, even a preoccupation from the time I was studying at the school of architecture until the present. The versatility of oil paint along with my prototypic work with palette knives allows me to play with the urban forms abstracting the city in an unconstrained manner.

Signed on the front, accompanied by a signed Certificate of Authenticity.

Materials used:

oil paint, canvas, palette knives

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