Richard Rutner Solo Art Exhibit Fri 7 PM · Art.Work Austin ·

August 25th,

411 Brazos #101Austin, Texas, TX 78701

During my years as an art student, drawing and painting the human form was most exciting for me. I spent a year studying painting and printmaking in Rome and gravitated to artists who approached the figure in both traditional and non-traditional methods, from Caravaggio to Richard Lindner. At the same time I discovered the art of the Surrealists and was drawn to the works of Miro, Max Ernst, and Friedrich Hundertwasser. I adopted many of their techniques, including automatic drawing, decalcomania and frottage to produce a substantial vocabulary of forms of every size and shape which I then used to develop my paintings and drawings.