Richard Barone

 

Member profile details

Membership level
Expired Memberships
First name
Richard
Last name
Barone
 

Contact Information

City
Melbourne
Province/State
Florida
Country
USA
 

First Image

Image No.1
Caption No.1
Fides et Ratio
Description No.1
Faith and Reason. Philosopher, humanitarian, pope, and priest. Blessed John Paul II. Oil on canvas, 2012.
 

Second Image

Image No.2
Caption No.2
Our Lady of Guadalupe
Description No.2
Oil on canvas, 2012
 

Third Image

Image No.3
Caption No.3
The Consecrated Life
Description No.3
Oil on linen, 2014
 

Arts data

Relation to Art
  • Artist
Arts Media
  • Painting
Arts Proficiency
Professional
Artist Statement
I was a great artist in the fifth grade, at least that’s what my fellow classmates and art teacher thought. My parents thought differently, however, and transferred me to a Catholic school, and that was the end of my art career. By the time I got to college, I was fully convinced that the intellectual search for truth was far superior to the sensuous. I earned a Bachelor of Arts degree and hadn’t taken one course in art. In a sense, I was on the same course as Robert Motherwell (philosopher to artist), but for me the end came in the jungles of Vietnam. Philosophy and everything that I had learned—all the teachers, priests, and professors—had abandoned me. Except art, which was always there waiting to be explored. So, now, I’m starting over, painting with abandon, without an exploitable style, and with the freedom of a ten-year-old.

Portraiture website: http://www.portraitartistpro.com

For a great book about an artist's struggle to survive in the Vietnam War, see “Traces of a Lost War,” 2009, Canto 34 Press, available on amazon.com, barnesandnoble.com, etc.
 

Church data

Denomination
Catholic
Diocese
Orlando, FL
Parish
St. John the Evangelist
Church Name
St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church
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