Chicago-based fine art painter Bruno A. Surdo creates provocative works centered around the human condition. Classically trained in drawing and oil painting in the tradition of Renaissance masters, Surdo displays a strong command of the human form and explores the depths of humanity through his dynamic compositions of people and places. With a focus on figurative realism and portraiture, he communicates a personal commentary on the world around him through the universal language of visual art. A native to Chicago, Bruno Surdo has exhibited widely throughout the United States and his work is held in prestigious art collections around the world. Founder of The School of Representational Art in Chicago, IL, Surdo is a lecturer and educator who believes in nurturing others.
Toy Play - Oil on Canvas Still-Life Painting of Yellow Toy Truck, 2026
By Bruno Surdo
Located in Chicago, IL
Toy Play A simple yellow toy truck is elevated into an image of memory and desire. Painted with the seriousness once reserved for sacred objects or royal possessions, it becomes a re...
Canvas, Oil
"Patterned Soul, " Acrylic on Canvas, 2022
By Bruno Surdo
Located in Chicago, IL
Chicago-based fine art painter Bruno A. Surdo is classically trained in drawing and oil painting in the tradition of Renaissance masters. With strong command of the human form, Surdo...
Acrylic
"Root, " Acrylic on Canvas
By Bruno Surdo
Located in Chicago, IL
Chicago-based fine art painter Bruno A. Surdo is classically trained in drawing and oil painting in the tradition of Renaissance masters. With strong command of the human form, Surdo...
Acrylic, Mixed Media
"This is Not a Tree, " Mixed Media on Canvas, 2022
By Bruno Surdo
Located in Chicago, IL
Chicago-based fine art painter Bruno A. Surdo is classically trained in drawing and oil painting in the tradition of Renaissance masters. With strong command of the human form, Surdo...
Mixed Media, Acrylic
"Passage to Town, " Oil on Board
By Bruno Surdo
Located in Chicago, IL
Chicago-based fine art painter Bruno A. Surdo is classically trained in drawing and oil painting in the tradition of Renaissance masters. With strong command of the human form, Surdo...
Oil, Board
"Fusion, " Charcoal on Paper, 2022
By Bruno Surdo
Located in Chicago, IL
Chicago-based fine art painter Bruno A. Surdo is classically trained in drawing and oil painting in the tradition of Renaissance masters. With strong command of the human form, Surdo creates dynamic compositions of people and places that communicate a rich commentary on the world around him. Depicting trees from personal encounters, Surdo’s latest body of work entitled “Tree Spirits” takes us on a foray into the forest, where leaves, branches and burls express something deeply personal. Applying his mastery of figurative realism to the natural world, he experiments with form and texture to uncover the intangible spirits of trees. This charcoal drawing entitled “Fusion” beautifully illustrates the collision of two young birch trees. Loosely drawn with short, lateral strokes, the drawing depicts the slow process of two trees fusing together as a graceful gesture of physical touch. The horizontal motion of the sketch-like linework captures the striated texture of birch bark, punctuated by the irregular forms of its eye-shaped markings. The light-colored trees are contrasted by a dark backdrop, a void of negative that isolates the trees in space and time. Restricting the composition to only a portion of the tree trunks, Surdo accentuates their abstract forms and focuses on the simple beauty of their graceful movements. Guided by his memory, Surdo recalls the trees as soft, gentle and calm, leaning in on each other in a tender embrace. His freeform, expressive style reveals the subjectivity of this memory and finishes the composition with a transient, dream-like atmosphere. Charcoal on paper...
Charcoal
"Channeler, " Oil on Board, 2022
By Bruno Surdo
Located in Chicago, IL
Chicago-based fine art painter Bruno A. Surdo is classically trained in drawing and oil painting in the tradition of Renaissance masters. With strong command of the human form, Surdo...
Oil
"Mystic Bond, " Acrylic on Canvas
By Bruno Surdo
Located in Chicago, IL
Chicago-based fine art painter Bruno A. Surdo is classically trained in drawing and oil painting in the tradition of Renaissance masters. With strong command of the human form, Surdo...
Acrylic, Mixed Media
$1,856
H 31.5 in W 19.69 in
FLOWERS - Carlo De Tommasi - Still Life Oil on Canvas Italian Painting
By Carlo De Tommasi
Located in Napoli, IT
Flowers - Carlo De Tommasi Italia 2007 - Oil on canvas cm. 80x50. With frame cm. 100x70 Frame available on request from our workshop. In this precious oil painting, Carlo De Tommasi ...
Canvas, Oil
$3,000
H 40 in W 33 in D 1.5 in
Still Life With Hummingbird Oil on Canvas, Framed 21st Century
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Still Life With Hummingbird 20th Century Still life, fruit and Flowers, oil on canvas, signed Schroter, 30" x 24" canvas, with frame 40" x 33" Schroter was born in April 1959, in Y...
Cotton Canvas, Oil
$350
H 5.99 in W 5.99 in D 0.79 in
Eleanor Woolley, May Hill, Original landscape painting
By Eleanor Woolley
Located in Deddington, GB
May Hill by Eleanor Woolley [May 2021] original Oil Painting on Gesso Board Image size: H:15.2 cm x W:15.2 cm Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:15.2 cm x W:15.2 cm x D:2cm Sold U...
Gesso, Oil, Board
$445,000
H 52.88 in W 68.88 in
Still Life of Game with Spaniels and Falcons in a Landscape by Carstian Luyckx
Located in SANTA FE, NM
Still Life of Game with Spaniels and Falcons in Landscape Setting Carstian Luyckx (Flemish, 1623 – c.1675) Oil on canvas Circa 1670 Unsigned 43 ½ x 59 1/8 in.; Frame 52 7/8 x 68 7/...
Oil, Canvas
$2,988Sale Price|20% Off
H 33.5 in W 25.5 in D 3 in
Still Life Painting of Two Plants on an Orange Table by Fauvist British Artist
By Steve Capper
Located in Preston, GB
Still Life Painting of Two Plants on an Orange Table by Fauvist British Artist, Steve Capper Art measures 20 x 28 inches Frame measures 25.5 x 33.5 inches Presented in a high quality black wooden moulding Steve Capper attended Manchester’s High School of Art in 1955, the Manchester College of Art in 1962 and Bretton Hall College in 1965. He taught painting for thirty years as head of a large art faculty in an Oldham comprehensive school, before taking early retirement in 1996 to concentrate on producing his own work. Capper produces on-the-spot sketches which are then taken into his studio where he re-works them into a painting. Both his landscapes and his still-life paintings reflect the influences of the cubists and the fauves. The work of Picasso, Braque and Matisse are amongst his major influences. Capper still lives and works near Oldham, in the Pennines...
Canvas, Paint, Cotton Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Board
$6,500
H 21.88 in W 25.25 in D 1.5 in
17th Century Memento Mori Vanitas Skull Old Master Oil Ex-Christie’s
Located in Yardley, PA
This wonderful 17th-century French School vanitas painting is a meditation on mortality and the transience of earthly pleasures. The composition centers on a finely rendered human sk...
Canvas, Oil
$6,637Sale Price|20% Off
H 33.47 in W 26.38 in
Still-Life Flowers Brueghel Paint 17/18th Century Oil ona canvas Old master Art
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
A follower of Abraham Brueghel (Antwerp, 1631 – Naples, 1697) Still Life with Flowers and Citrus Fruits Oil on canvas 70 x 52 cm. - Framed 85 x 67 cm. The composition depict...
Oil
$1,800
H 31.5 in W 31.5 in
"Mountain Road" Contemporary Realistic Colorado Aspen Tree Landscape Painting
By Jerry Greenberg
Located in Houston, TX
Contemporary realistic Colorado landscape nature painting by Houston based artist Jerry Greenberg. The work features sunlight streaming onto a rock path lined with aspen trees. Signed in the front lower right corner as well as titled on the reverse. Currently hung in a gold frame. Dimensions Without Frame: H 24 in. x W 24 in. Artist Biography: I have a deep appreciation for nature. In my work I seek to convey the landscape as I experience it emotionally as well as visually. I travel frequently throughout the United States and Europe in search of new landscapes. Some of my favorite subjects include rivers and creeks in the Texas hill country; aspen trees in the Rocky Mountains; ponds in New England; and lush rolling hills in the English countryside. My influences include French and Russian Impressionists and early California landscape...
Oil
$1,856
H 23.63 in W 15.75 in
STILL LIFE - Dutch School Baroque - Oil on Canvas Italian Painting
By Salvatore Marinelli
Located in Napoli, IT
Still life - Salvatore Marinelli Italia 2007 - Oil on canvas cm. 60x40 Salvatore Marinelli's painting is a beautiful reinterpretation by Pieter Claesz Dutch Baroque painter, one of the best known specialists in still life, having banquet scenes as its main theme. In Marinelli's painting the gold and silver colors emerge clearly on the dark background and on the gold velvet tablecloth...
Canvas, Oil
$1,580
H 40 in W 82.6 in
Modern Botanical Triptych of Tropical Garden, Hibiscus Lush Foliage Illustration
By Romina Milano
Located in Barcelona, ES
This original triptych by Romina Milano presents a vibrant botanical landscape rendered in expressive, fluid brushwork. Stylized tropical blooms unfold across three panels, creating ...
Oil Crayon, India Ink
$4,500
H 21.5 in W 25.5 in D 2 in
Soft Spring Landscape Painting, Impressionist Oil on Panel 20x24
By Ginny Williams
Located in Atlanta, GA
A soft, impressionist landscape painting capturing the quiet shift of spring. Gentle tonal variation and painterly movement give this piece an easy, atmospheric presence. The palette...
Oil, Board
$680Sale Price|20% Off
H 40 in W 28 in
Illustration Style Painting, Botanical Scene of Wild Dandelions and Clovers, Ink
By Romina Milano
Located in Barcelona, ES
"Lucky Dandelion" is an abstract expressionist painting by Romina Milano where a landscape of black gestures unfolds across colorful brushstrokes infused with raw emotion. Romina M...
Acrylic, India Ink, Handmade Paper
Sold
H 48 in W 24 in
Lost Call- Pink Landline Phone - Original oil painting by Bruno Surdo
By Bruno Surdo
Located in Chicago, IL
Lost Call by Bruno Surdo transforms an ordinary rotary telephone into a poignant symbol of distance, memory, and missed connection. Rendered in soft pink tones against a stark white ...
Canvas, Oil
"Lucid Soul, " Acrylic on Canvas, 2022
By Bruno Surdo
Located in Chicago, IL
Chicago-based fine art painter Bruno A. Surdo is classically trained in drawing and oil painting in the tradition of Renaissance masters. With strong command of the human form, Surdo creates dynamic compositions of people and places that communicate a rich commentary on the world around him. Depicting trees from personal encounters, Surdo’s latest body of work entitled “Tree Spirits” takes us on a foray into the forest, where leaves, branches and burls express something deeply personal. Applying his mastery of figurative realism to the natural world, he experiments with form and texture to uncover the intangible spirits of trees. Entitled “Lucid Soul,” this portrait of a young birch sapling is painted on an elongated canvas that allows for incredible detail. The slender tree is painted in a wide range of neutral colors with a freeform, expressive style, textured with thick layers and added sediment. Up close, the brushstrokes appear erratic and incomprehensible, but from afar, the chaotic layering beautifully captures the organic beauty of birch bark, with all its irregular patterning and texture. Restricting the composition to only a portion of the trunk, Surdo focuses on qualities that make the tree memorable - its narrow...
Acrylic