Category: Projects

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…

Lucretia, Bay City, Texas, summer 2015. Painting, Oil on canvas. Size: 30 W x 40 H in (76.2 W x 101.6 H cm). © 2014 Florencia San Martin Brück/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Susan Jacoby writes, “When Mott died in 1880, she was widely judged by her contemporaries… as the greatest American woman of the nineteenth century.” She was a mentor to Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who continued her work. A stamp was issued in 1948 in remembrance of the Seneca Falls Convention, featuring Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Carrie Chapman Catt, and Lucretia Mott. Mott is commemorated in a sculpture by Pablo…

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

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.

The Siiq, path to Petra, Buenos Aires, summer 2015. Painting, Oil on canvas. Size: 39.4 W x 39.4 H in (100 W x 100 H cm). © 2014 Florencia San Martin Brück/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. It seems no work of Man’s creative hand, by labour wrought as wavering fancy planned; But from the rock as if by magic grown, eternal, silent, beautiful, alone! Not virgin-white like that old Doric shrine, where erst Athena held her rites divine; Not saintly-grey, like many a minster fane, that crowns the hill and consecrates the plain; But rose-red as if the blush…

Jardin des Tuileries, Buenos Aires, summer 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. On October 6, 1789, as the French Revolution be an, King Louis XVI was brought against his will to the Tuileries Palace, located between the Louvre Museum and the Place de la Concorde, Paris.Queen Marie Antoinette and the Dauphin were allowed to promenade in the Jardin des Tuileries on the evening of September 18, 1791, during the festival organized to celebrate the new French…

Barolo. Buenos Aires, summer 2014. Painting, Oil on canvas, Size: 59 H x 59 W in (150 H x 150 W cm).  © 2014 Florencia San Martin Brück/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York I went to a private party at “Palacio Barolo”, the building energy and its history got in me and from that night the inspiration of my painting “Barolo”. History Italian architect Mario Palanti was commissioned to design the building by the empresario Luis Barolo, an Italian immigrant who had arrived in Argentina in 1890 and had made a fortune in knitted fabrics. The Palacio Barolo was designed in…

Génétique. Buenos Aires, winter 2014. Painting, Oil on canvas, Size: 39.3 W x 31.4 H in (100 W x 80 H cm).  © 2014 Florencia San Martin Brück/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Oil on canvas 100x100cm. Buenos Aires, 2013. Argentina. Painting by FSMB Copyright 2011 Florencia San Martin Brück. All Rights reserved.