Hunt Slonem’s cockatoo oil painting “Cockatoos,” painted in 1991 in oil paint on canvas measuring 44 x 66 inches. Wall art by Hunt Slonem for sale at Manolis Projects gallery.
Close up image of Hunt Slonem’s cockatoo oil painting “Cockatoos,” painted in 1991 in oil paint on canvas measuring 44 x 66 inches. Wall art by Hunt Slonem for sale at Manolis Projects gallery.
Close up image of the frame corner for Hunt Slonem’s cockatoo oil painting “Cockatoos,” painted in 1991 in oil paint on canvas measuring 44 x 66 inches. Wall art by Hunt Slonem for sale at Manolis Projects gallery.
Back Signature: Hunt Slonem, Cockatoos, 1991, Oil on canvas, 44 x 66 inches, Hunt Slonem's paintings are at once vibrant, energetic and colorful, yet also deeply spiritual and contemplative. He sees the ability of birds to fly - to achieve atmospheric height - as a direct metaphor for transcendence from an earthly to a spiritual realm. Slonem utilizes the intense colors of the neo-expressional style that mirrors the interesting worlds in which these animals exist. Available at Manolis Projects Gallery
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  • Load image into Gallery viewer, Back Signature: Hunt Slonem, Cockatoos, 1991, Oil on canvas, 44 x 66 inches, Hunt Slonem's paintings are at once vibrant, energetic and colorful, yet also deeply spiritual and contemplative. He sees the ability of birds to fly - to achieve atmospheric height - as a direct metaphor for transcendence from an earthly to a spiritual realm. Slonem utilizes the intense colors of the neo-expressional style that mirrors the interesting worlds in which these animals exist. Available at Manolis Projects Gallery

Cockatoos, 1991

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Hunt Slonem (b.1951-)
Cockatoos, 1991
Oil on canvas
44 x 66 inches

Hunt Slonem's paintings are at once vibrant, energetic and colorful, yet also deeply spiritual and contemplative. The artist creates exotic forms with expressive and highly textural brushstrokes that are full of intense color, loosely inspired by artists of the German Expressionism movement.

The artist's hand can clearly be seen in loose, expressive brushstrokes. The impasto of built-up paint on the canvas creates a texture not unlike the feathers of a bird, and even calls to mind the rustling of feathers. 

Slonem creates beautiful, surprising scenes that offer a calming joy to those who encounter it. From the very beginning, animals and the natural world, most notably birds, have been the central focus of his work. For Slonem, birds signify divinity and transcendence in their ability to leave the realm of earth and its constraints through flight. He sees the ability of birds to fly - to achieve atmospheric height - as a direct metaphor for transcendence from an earthly to a spiritual realm.

Indeed, however dark the material, they seem to dissolve in light-dematerialize-as in Cockatoos, which are pure presences, all but disembodied," remarks critic, Donald Kuspit.