Arthur Secunda "Beethoven," 2007, Color Monotype

A superb and powerful color Monotype by the internationally known artist Arthur Secunda. On French BFK Rives handmade paper. Hand signed with pencil on the lower right. In excellent condition. Size: 30 X 22 inches. Arthur Secunda is a dear friend. Between 1997 and 2011 I collaborated with Arthur Secunda in creation of over eight hundred Monotypes by him at my private studio and workshop (Rezvani Studio and Workshop). Secunda's monotypes are quite intellectual. They are always thoughtful, mysterious, and intriguing. A great deal of thought and purposefulness goes into the creation of every monotype. He executed several series with me, beside the Old Testament works, including portraits of poets and jazz configurations. His superb grasp and knowledge of texture and form allows him to create imagery that is mysterious and powerful, which seems to appear from a secret source. His profound understanding of abstraction, combined with his intimate grasp of the printmaking process, magically reveals his innermost feelings. He would often paint and redraw over the “completed” monotypes. Nothing is ever left to chance. When looking at the vast series of Arthur Secunda monotypes, one cannot deny that they are created with eloquence and expressiveness by an artist of great intellect and depth. Please review other great works of art and impressive art posters listed by Rezvaniart and available for sale by clicking on the "Visit Store/Rezvaniart" which is located below the "Seller Information, Rezvaniart" on the upper right side of each listing. Arthur Secunda is an internationally renowned artist whose career has spanned five decades. His one man shows have been seen worldwide in numerous galleries and museums in France, Sweden, Belgium, Holland, Spain, Israel, and Japan. In the United States, he is represented in most major museums of the country, including the National Gallery of Art and the Smithsonian Museum in Washington D.C., the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the UCLA Museum, the Detroit Art Institute, and the Phoenix Museum. Known for his brilliant collages and striking graphics, Secunda has mastered all types of printmaking, even making his own paper in France and Japan. His impressive body of work includes painting, mixed media, polyester assemblage, ceramics and welded sculpture. His studies began at the Detroit Art Institute as a teenager, and continued in New York at the Art Students League and New York University. After a stint in the Air Force as an artist, he then studied, thanks to the GI bill, in Mexico, Paris and Italy, with many great artists and teachers, beginning a lifelong propensity for travel-- living and working in other countries. For decades, he maintained studios in Paris and LA. He considers himself a landscape artist, and has developed his own iconography in representing nature, the land and its forms, as well as corresponding inner landscapes. He is known for a specific kind of color gradation and blending of forms in many media. His work tends to oscillate between the serene--striated colors in landscapes--to the expressive, as in many of his oil paintings. After years in Paris, Secunda has maintained a studio in Scottsdale for the last decade--doing what he has done in all of the other places he has liv ed and worked in the last 50 years--creating imagery. He has worked as a jazz musician--in Paris in the early days to support himself, and as a milkman; as an art critic, lecturer, curator, writer and publisher. Periodically, he consults at NASA where he is an image visualizer, helping translate scientific data into visual images. Highly respected as a teacher, he will spend August in Lacoste, France teaching a master class in collage and the creation of handmade artists books. (Secunda has an international following of people who subscribe and collect his dada art "books".) Next year, he will have a one man exhibition at the University of Judaism in Los Angeles, presenting a never before seen series of expressive portrait monotypes of noted art personalities, after which he will exhibit early Mexican woodcuts at McMasters University in Hamilton, Ontario, in a two man display with Indian artist Mansaram Panchal.