Author: FSMB

Lady Blue Bombay. Buenos Aires, fall 2014. Painting, Oil on canvas, Size: 47.2 W x 39.4 H in (120 W x 100 H cm).  © 2014 Florencia San Martin Brück/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York A blue flower is a central symbol of inspiration. It stands for desire, love, and the metaphysical striving for the infinite and unreachable. It symbolizes hope and the beauty of things. In the book Heinrich von Ofterdingen the blue flower symbolises the joining of human with nature and the spirit so the understanding of nature and coincident of the self is growing. In the Romantic…

L’Annunciazione. Buenos Aires, winter 2014. Painting, Oil on canvas, Size: 47.2 W x 39.4 H in (120 W x 100 H cm).  © 2014 Florencia San Martin Brück/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York The Annunciation is the Christian celebration of the announcement by the angel Gabriel to the Virgin Mary that she would conceive and become the mother of Jesus, the Son of God, marking his Incarnation. Gabriel told Mary to name her son Jesus, meaning “Saviour”. Many Christians observe this event with the Feast of the Annunciation on 25 March, nine full months before Christmas, the ceremonial birthday of…

NDE (near-death experience).  Buenos Aires, Fall 2014. Painting, Oil on canvas, Size: 47.2 W x 39.4 H in (120 W x 100 H cm).  © 2014 Florencia San Martin Brück/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York When I finished painting this piece I saw a door and a cross at the bottom of the canvas that I never drew intentionally. I decided to call it NDE (near-death experience) since I feel these are my near-death experiences that came out from my unconscious. I had my first near-death experience when I was a child, perhaps at the age of 5. It involved…

Breena (Tierra de hadas). Buenos Aires, winter 2014. Painting, Oil on canvas, Size: 47.2 W x 39.4 H in (120 W x 100 H cm). © 2014 Florencia San Martin Brück/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York Breena, un lugar encantado, un jardín mágico dónde las hadas cuidan los secretos y tesoros del mundo… “HADA” deriva del vocablo latino fata, que a su vez procede de fatum, el Hado, el destino. Breena, an enchanted place, a magical garden where the fairies guard the secrets and treasures of the world … ” FAIRY ” derives from the Latin word fata, which in…

Beulah. Buenos Aires, summer 2014. Painting, Oil on canvas, Size: 47.2 W x 39.4 H in (120 W x 100 H cm).  © 2014 Florencia San Martin Brück/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York In William Blake’s mythology, Beulah is “the realm of the Subconscious, the source of poetic inspiration and of dreams.”

Symphony. Buenos Aires, winter 2014. Painting, Oil on canvas, Size: 47.2 W x 39.4 H in (120 W x 100 H cm).  © 2014 Florencia San Martin Brück/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York Kandinsky is believed to have had synaesthesia, a harmless condition that allows a person to appreciate sounds, colours or words with two or more senses simultaneously. In his case, colours and painted marks triggered particular sounds or musical notes and vice versa. The idea that music is linked to visual art goes back to ancient Greece, when Plato first talked of tone and harmony in relation to…

Justice of Trajan. Buenos Aires, winter 2014. Painting, Oil on canvas, Size: 39.4 W x 47.2 H in (100 W x 120 H cm).  © 2014 Florencia San Martin Brück/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York The Justice of Trajan is a legendary episode in the life of Roman Emperor Trajan, based upon Dio Cassius’ account (Epitome of Book LXVIII, chapter 10): “He did not, however, as might have been expected of a warlike man, pay any less attention to the civil administration nor did he dispense justice any the less; on the contrary, he conducted trials, now in the Forum…

Marduk. Buenos Aires, winter 2014. Painting, Oil on canvas, Size: 43.3 W x 59 H in (110 W x 150 H cm).  © 2014 Florencia San Martin Brück/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York Marduk was the Babylonian name of a late-generation god from ancient Mesopotamia and patron deity of the city of Babylon, who, when Babylon became the political center of the Euphrates valley in the time of Hammurabi (18th century BCE). In the perfected system of astrology, the planet Jupiter was associated with Marduk by the Hammurabi period. The etymology of the name Marduk is conjectured as derived from…

La Derrota de Quimera. Buenos Aires, spring 2014. Painting, Oil on canvas, Size: 47.2 W x 39.4 H in (120 W x 100 H cm).  © 2014 Florencia San Martin Brück/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York THE KHIMAIRA (or Chimera) was a monstrous beast which ravaged the countryside of Lykia in Anatolia. It was a composite creature, with the body and maned head of a lion, a goat’s head rising from its back, a set of goat-udders, and a serpentine tail. The hero Bellerophon was commanded to slay it by King Iobates. He rode into battle against the beast on the…

Deux arabesques. Buenos Aires, summer 2014. Painting, Oil on canvas, Size: 47.2 W x 39.4 H in (120 W x 100 H cm).  © 2014 Florencia San Martin Brück/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York The Two Arabesques (Deux arabesques), L. 66, is a pair of arabesques composed for piano by Claude Debussy. They are two of Debussy’s earliest works, composed between the years 1888 and 1891, when he was still in his twenties. The suite is one of the very early impressionistic pieces of music, following the French visual art form. His view of a musical arabesque was a line…

Talavera Poblana, Bay City, Texas, summer 2015. Painting, Oil on canvas. Size: 40 W x 30 H in (101.6 W x 76.2 H cm). © 2014 Florencia San Martin Brück/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Inspired by the colors of Talavera pottery, in Puebla, Mexico. It is a mixture of Italian, Spanish and indigenous ceramic techniques, distinguished by a milky-white glaze, cobalt blue, yellow, black, green and orange.

Nature. Buenos Aires, winter 2015. Painting, Oil on canvas, Size: 150 x 150 cm.  © 2015 Florencia San Martin Brück/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York