Torito Power - Painting by Carlos Luna:

Provenance

CCG Art Collection, Miami, Florida, USA.

Exhibited

Complejo Cultural Universitario, Puebla, Mexico, August 18, 2009 - January 17, 2010.

Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale, Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA, October 2, 2008 - February 23, 2009.

Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, Florida, USA, August 24 - November 24, 2007.

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Literature

Carlos Luna, Personal Histories, Susquehanna Art Museum, Polk Museum of Art & The Suzanne H. Arnold Gallery, Lebanon Valley College, p. 92 - 92, Published July 2006, Illustrated in color.

Pablo Picasso Ceramics, Carlos Luna Paintings, p. 212 - 213 (Cat. 82), Published 2008, ISBN: 978-0-9678056-8-9.

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Museum Description

Carlos Luna
Torito Power
CCG Art Collection, Miami

Luna’s approach to constructing a painting is to work very carefully to ensure that the painting is a well-crafted material artifact, as well as an articulate expression of his ideas. He enjoys the process of working in oil. “Painting is like a woman who will show you her body only if you offer her your soul,” says the artist. Respect for the process of oil painting requires working slowly to build up multiple layers after he personally prepares the canvas with different tints of gesso, some hand-made, some bought. The composition process begins with preliminary sketches to prepare the ideas for execution in the painting. A charcoal drawing on a base of Indian red forms the structural basis of the painting. The surface of the canvas is built up by applying layers of color in stages of wet-dry-wet layering.

- Curtis L. Carter ©

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Torito Power

Oil on Canvas

62 x 72 in
(157.5 x 183 cm)

2004

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Museum Description

The Cisneros Capital Group (CCG) Art Collection is a private art collection represented by Latin American Art Investments Corp. (LAAIC) - primarily made up of Latin American paintings. We are pleased to present paintings, sculptures and drawings by Carlos Luna, an outstanding Cuban painter and sculptor.

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