“Underwater Landscape » Henri Hecht MAÏK 1956, French Painter, Oil on Canvas

Small oil on canvas by Henri Hecht MAÏK (1922-1993) “Bird in nature” sign and date lower left “MAÏK 66” Painted wood and canvas from the 60s frame. Ca...

Henri Hecht MAÏK (1922-1993) French painter. Color lithograph « Savannah Animals by the River» from 70s Signed rare artist’s proof on wove paper. Signature in pencil lower right and...

Seabed painting with house painted by the Spanish Artist Juan Borras Borras Measurements with frame: 108 x 95 x 3,5cm.

Under the sea Series. Nº 4. Fantasy underwater landscape. Oil on paper, (H) 50 x (W) 40 x (D) 0,1 cm. Author: Úbeda. The sheets that make up this project evoke a dreamlike world of seabeds. The painter submerges landscapes, forests, materials and terrestrial objects under the cold and silent ocean currents. A feeling of weightlessness dominates the viewer, while the moon floats between anemones, sea urchins and posidonia forests. The blue-green darkness is broken up with nuclei and horizons of light, contrasting with the ambiguous and mysterious atmosphere of the compositions. TECHNIQUE The work has been carried out with an innovative technique, where the fluidized oil is transformed into an undulating sea, to create impossible shapes on paper, which are later outlined by the airbrush, the palette knife and the brush. A totally personal bet of the author, who has done an exercise in free painting, with an explosion of contrasts between the real world and abstraction. ABOUT THE ARTIST Ángel Luis Úbeda...