The Forge

This mixed media piece by contemporary fine artist Diaro Vargas achieves the impressive guise of a Renaissance or Baroque painting whilst obscured, at further glance, by modern expressive abstract brushstrokes. The fluidity of the paint marks the artist has executed this piece with elicits a reflective and introspective response from the viewer. Brush work is applied with liberation, conveying vehement emotion and limitless energy through a tessellating pattern of swift paint strokes. Invigorated with movement, figurative forms seem to morph and merge visually, and a igneous landscape can be almost decipherable. This piece is charged with a fiery mixture of sienna, golden tones and vivid yellow highlights. Evincing a celebration of the impressive compositions of old Masters’ and notable Renaissance paintings, the classically intricate accuracy applied to figures is brought to life with a myriad of gestures which dance together, producing a dynamic mental landscape that is rich in emotion. This original painting is on stretched canvas, hand signed by the artist, and framed, ready to be displayed.