![]() "Sonmor paints with the certain craft of a master, with the sure touch of a virtuoso, not for the sake of the pride in technique but for something more imperative: for the efficacy of the art, for the sake of what art is for - the penetration through to a truth of our essential nature that we realize but cannot hold for more than the briefest moment." - Mark Daniel Cohen, Art Critic, NYC Montreal painter Kevin Sonmor has been widely celebrated throughout his own country as well as the United States for the past 20 years. Sonmor’s accomplished painterly technique and suggestive imagery mesh to create dense, brooding scenes evocative of art historical traditions such as Flemish still-life painting and Romantic landscapes. Looking at a Kevin Sonmor painting is like listening to opera with one’s eyes. Sonmor presents his viewers with a broiling sea of emotion, filtered through the lens of art history. As a result, these paintings are at once wholly contemporary and deeply rooted in the myth and legend of ages past. The two lead actors on the stage of these works are a dramatic expression of light, and the powerful physicality of the substance of paint. Watching the drama play out in each piece is a singular experience. Sonmor's compositions are powerful essays in the language of painterliness, both contemporary and classical, as they demonstrate how the act of painting can evoke and embody the mysteries of nature.
La Derniere Cache, oil on linen, 16x16
La Premiere Cache, oil on linen, 16x16
The High Street, oil on linen, 30x30
Dans la Rue, oil on linen, 30x30
New Boulevard, oil on linen, 40x40
Middle Boulevard, oil on linen, 40x40
Road Worthy, oil on linen, 80x70
Unstable Study, oil on linen, 24x24
Tapestry, oil on linen, 36x36
White Vanitas Comedy IV, oil on linen, 36x36
Red Vanitas Comedy IV, oil on linen, 36x36
Wilderness, oil on linen, 44x44
Bay Bulls Construction, oil on linen, 64x72
Untitled Gravity, oil on linen, 72x64
Simple Gravity, oil on linen, 84x72
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