The Guardian Angel
My adaptation of the painting "The Guardian Angel" by Italian Baroque painter Marcantonio Franceschini, completed in 1716.
In 2025, I hung the painting in a gold frame on a black wall. Unfortunately on a faulty nail, which meant it was close to disaster but guardian angels are guardian angels for a reason of course....
This artwork is a so-called Trompe-l'oeil. Trompe-l'oeil paintings create a sense of depth and space on a flat surface, as if the painted object were real. Facial illusion, in other words, in simple language.
Art with a wink ;-)
The stylists at Art Heroes call my art style ‘Art with a Wink’. And I couldn't agree more. Life is serious enough as it is, don't you think? ;-)
I mainly make surrealist artworks and collages, because in those artstyles I can so wonderfully unleash my creativity and unbridled..
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