This artwork depicts a serene, misty landscape featuring an abundance of soft, billowing foliage. The composition is dominated by a harmonious blend of warm, earthy tones, creating a hazy, atmospheric quality. The overall visual style employs a delicate, almost ethereal technique, evoking a sense of tranquility and natural wonder. The artist's intention seems to be capturing the quiet beauty and mystique of a landscape shrouded in a gentle veil of mist, inviting the viewer to pause and immerse themselves in the serene, natural ambiance. ...
Lucas Arruda produces detailed and contemplative oil paintings that muddy the boundaries between memory and imagination. Instead of representing specific geographic locations, his expressive landscapes are born out of a particular state of mind, coming into fruition by converging memories of sites previously visited, vistas dreamed of, or perhaps seen in a film. As Arruda explains, rather than a real place, the idea of landscape serves as a structural foundation for his artwork. Part fiction, part reality, these dreamy paintings beckon viewer’s attention, with their cloudiness perhaps instigating recollections of their own. The fluid, amorphous style of Arruda’s brushstrokes echoes the watery worlds of painters such as Claude Monet or J.M. W. Turner, but Arruda’s chosen palette and selection of South American fauna places his work in a distinctly Brazilian context. ...
