Richard 'Ricky' Armendariz American, b. 1969
Beauty Marks, Sons of Velázquez V, 2018
Oil on birch panel
24 x 24 in
61 x 61 cm
61 x 61 cm
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As part of the artist’s Beauty Marks series, Richard Armendariz expressively renders a painterly portrait of a man sporadically stamped with circular applications of brightly colored paint signifying blemishes. Much...
As part of the artist’s Beauty Marks series, Richard Armendariz expressively renders a painterly portrait of a man sporadically stamped with circular applications of brightly colored paint signifying blemishes. Much like how the harmony of the painting’s cool color palette is interrupted by orange, yellow, purple, and green streaks, Armendariz conveys the duality of beauty marks and how they have historically been viewed as both positive and negative attributes.
