I found out about this artist through 'Tons of Paintings':
Jonas Kunickas is a figurative artist in oils (natural comparisons might be drawn to Andre Kohn as a result - but his style is very different). He is a Lithuanian artist based in Kaunas:
His artist is charged with energy and I love it. Look as these portraits:
I love the unorthodox use of colour that inflames the picture and makes it jump out - with a sense of animation almost, and also with texture and depth.
This tremendous family portrait (including animals) has so much going on. I love the dog on the left particularly. Every individual image is worthy of congratulations - it seems to convey so much and succeeds in shaking off any sense of formality. As with the individual portraits above there is tremendous warmth.
The final two pictures offer a contrast. A juvenile girl drinking tea, and a semi nude. I like the way that this shows the vibrancy of the artist's diversity. It works equally well with both images. The evers so slightly unwilling nature of the young girl, with a hint of incredulity (and possibly even precociousness) in her eyes is given a delightful sense of life.
The voluptuous soft curves of the mature female form, cast with shadows and sheets, works equally well. I imagine that she's staring into the flames of a fire. The blues also hint at the suggest of an apparition of the mind - is this deliberate?
It's a tremendous shame that Jonas Kunickas isn't on twitter - I'd love to ask him questions about his style.
Instead of himself, I'd recommend @TonsofPaintings - who I'm grateful to for helping me to discover him in the first place.
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