Fernando de Jesus Oliveira (Ferjo)
Pennsylvania / Brazil., (1946 - )
Scene of a Window
acrylic on canvas
signed in lower right
The popular Brazilian painter known as 'Ferjo' was born in Bahia, raised in S?o Paulo, and has spent a significant amount of time in the USA. He is known for his dream-like surrealist paintings inspired by Dal, DeChirico and Magritte. He enjoys painting rooms that often look like art galleries (or the homes of big-time art collectors) that are filled not only with art but also with unusual floating elements--and rooms that often enjoy views onto the sky and sea beyond. In this colorful and whimsical painting of a hallway scene, Ferjo has included surrealist elements (the suspended strawberry, the bluish sphere, a pencil and a broken shell), renditions of two large-scale landscape paintings that face one another in a restricted hallway that narrows between two columns beyond which we can enjoy a purplish seascape at sunset.
14" x 18" unframed; 21" x 25" framed