Alvaro Cardona-Hine's Figure Paintings

The full figures paintings of Cardona-Hine have as much range within this category as his original art paintings and his original acrylic painting do overall. He often paints several figures together with references to myth or to literature, and the female nude is another motif that he comes back to over and over.

He uses distortion and exaggeration to attain his vision, and, of all his other work, his figures are certainly the most expressionistic. He ranges from religious and spiritual figures: Moses, Buddha, and Christ, to literary and mythic figures: Circe,Euridice, Apollo; but in all of these, his interest is in capturing and expressing, their most essential natures as he perceives them.

His figures range from very small canvasses to very large ones. This one, called "Celebration of Life,"  measures 28 x 22 and is priced at $1600.