Gerald Wartofsky is a classicist. The power of his work wells up from beneath the surface, in the tapestry of his convictions and the ideas that weave themselves into his paintings. It is the strength of still, swift movement translating the mesmerizing dance of his wife, Karin, into brushstrokes, and the richly orchestrated music of Gustav Mahler into pigments, combined with Satie's off-beat and light stepping striations.
A year's formal study in Florence, following his earlier studies with the master Georg Grosz, yielded an intensity of "certain Italian and Northern Renaissance masters such as...the Venetians and Rembrandt who, in their "painterly approach" were all absorbed in Wartofsky's works.
Artist Statement:
"My goal was to emulate in a personal form the complexity of structural design that the Renaissance and Baroque masters had forged, the intricacy of their imagery and technical beauty".
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