Roy Gonzalez Tabora: Hawaiian Seascape Painter

I appreciate realism in paintings and love seascapes, having grown up next to the Pacific Ocean. So, naturally I would love Roy Tabora's seascapes. He started young as an artist apprenticed by his uncle, Rick Gonzalez. By 20 he was an accomplished artist but decided to go finish his degree in fine arts from the University of Hawaii.

Tabora's seascapes are an "idealized realism." Each painting captures a moment of surf, sun, moon, reflection, and color that reflect the real beauty of Hawaii, but are purely in the imagination. He painstaking attention to detail make his painting not just photographic, but crisp images of imagined memories. Enjoy the beauty of creation and imagination!

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Zdzislaw Beksinski: Surrealistic Gothic Painter

I just got a copy of of the Fantastic Art of Beksinski, though I have appreciated his surreal art for a long time. Zdzislaw Beksinski was a Polish painter, photographer and sculptor whose style can be described as Gothic, surreal, and fantastic realism. His paintings are haunted by meticulous renderings of boney structures and human bodies, moody colors, juxtaposition of dark and light, surreal landscapes, and religious symbolism. Even though Beksinski aschews interpretation of his artwork, one cannot help but conjure up themes of post-apocalypticism, decay and mortality, suffering humanity, and the stuff of nightmares. The artist painted to the sounds of classical music. He was murdered in 2005 by a "fiend" of his son for not loaning him $100!