Welcome to the Art of Rich Buckler...
Glorious celebration of the New!
NEW SURREALISM begins here...
"Argus/Laocoon"14 3/4 x 18" Oil on Canvas
When is the last time you were truly astonished, captivated, mystified and totally enthralled by a work of art? Was it just yesterday? Or was it...never? Are you prepared for a totally new visual experience? You are invited to experience the visionary art of a modern master...
D. F. Coleman, independent curator and art historian (on the art of Rich Buckler):
"...drives home the sense of the sublime anguish and delight felt in the presence of some
uncomprehending force greater than the sum total of human experience...
hauntingly authentic art that transcends time and the power of words."
Dr. Akhter Ahsen, eminent psychologist and leading authority on Surrealism, has this to say about the artist:
"A painter whose images are so rich and alive that they seem to unfold with their own grace and poise like
a metaphysical garden eternally flowing, or like visual poetry born of an elegant new language."
Is Salvador Dali...Surrealism?...Is Surrealism the dreams of Dali...? Or did we dream him? Did he really melt Time..? Is it possible for Surrealism to melt Dali?!!
Dr. Ahsen, on the visionary aspect of Rich Buckler's work:
"His canvases are icons of the Newness that is
the essence of surrealism. It is as if the past
were somehow revisited by the artist, there to be
synthesized by a secret Universal Quintessence,
and then re-interpreted for the present."
"Not without a sense of humor and a delight in the
irrational and absurd, his art is rich with lucid
commentary on the ordinary and the miraculous...
this is the alchemical world of an artist who is
continually unfolding as a painter and as a person,
a surrealist whose mastery of craft and technique
produces mature visual statements that evoke
positive energy, love and desire, wonderment and
faith and mystery and hope."
We live in a geometric universe where we are obsessed with measuring everything...yet we know little or nothing about what this universe is made of--curious, is it not?
Pythagoras was known in ancient times as the "Hyperborean Apollo." You can't really tell very much about people just from
their name--but there are some people whose name says a lot.
The full title of this work is "Hyperborean Apollo (With Exploded Pyramid)." That is, "exploded" in the mathematical (or geometric) sense. Pyramids were named not for their shape or form. The word is actually derived from fire (or light).
There is a whole lot that we don't know about pyramids.
With a solo exhibition in Paris in 2002, the artist made his international debut as an American Surrealist. His work has been critically acclaimed. His first few exhibitions in Manhattan's Chelsea and Soho galleries were favorably received, with his paintings compared to the "early seminal works of Dali and Ernst." He is a member of the Society Of Art Of The Imagination.
For more paintings, see the next page...
Remember...Res ipsa pretiosa
