Americo Bartholomew Makk Painting - Reflections

Born in 1951 in San Paulo, Brazil, A.B (Americo Bartholomew) has lived in the world of art since early childhood, when he would watch his internationally famous parents, Americo and Eva Makk, lecture or demonstrate at Brazil's Academia de Belas Artes. He first began painting at the age of three, and by the age of four he was quickly recognized as a prodigy by the Brazilian press, which referred to him as "the Little Picasso," for the innocence and maturity of his art. His constant artistic apprenticeship continued as his family created its world famous cathedral and historical murals and traveled over three continents, from the jungles of the Amazon, to the great Museums of Europe and North America. A.B. first art exhibition was at the age of five.

A.B. began to exhibit with his parents in 1975, after more than twenty years of education and training in art. A.B. works with brilliant and vibrant colors in a bold, impressionistic technique that combines Americo's dark under-painting with Eva’s subtle color blends.

His works have an accomplished competence rare in so young an artist. His reverence for nature grows from the same intense conviction of the value of all life that inspired the great Romantics, such as Keats, and his creation and manipulation of light is the most exciting since Turner and Cezanne.

A.B. Makk is the most explicit nature painter of his family. He is fascinated by sunsets, seascapes, and harbors, by rain forests and mountain cascades, by the never-repeating, yet eternally the same variety of nature. Like Shelley and the other great Romantic poets, he perceives the constancy of change, and he celebrates and preserves single moments of intense beauty. His work has been compared to Turner's and Monet's, and a recent painting, "Spring" won the Gold Medal Grand Prize at the Arpad Academy 23rd Annual International Exhibition.

A.B. lives today in Hawaii with his parents. The three Makks, America’s first family of fine art, painters of four continents, are today dedicated to depicting, with pride and joy, the history and people of their new homeland, the United States of America.


Medium - Original Oil on Linen
4” Ornate Baroque Frame with Liner
 
Canvas Size: 24" H x 30" W
Overall Size:  33" H x 39" W