Category: Painting

Agate the Sphinx. Buenos Aires, winter 2014. Painting, Oil on canvas, Size: 47.2 W x 35.4 H in (120 W x 90 H cm).  © 2014 Florencia San Martin Brück/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York The painting depicts the Sphinx triumphs over Oedipus at the crossroads on his journey between Thebes and Delphi. The Sphinx may be seen as a form of femme fatale, a common theme in Symbolist painting. Opening poem of Buch der Leider by Heinrich Heine: Nightly I see you in dreams-you speak, With kindliness sincerest, I throw myself, weeping aloud and weak At your sweet feet, my…

Clorofila. Buenos Aires, winter 2014. Painting, Oil on canvas, Size: 47.2 W x 35.4 H in (120 W x 90 H cm).  © 2014 Florencia San Martin Brück/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Frozen Minotaur. 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 In Greek mythology, the Minotaur was the offspring of the King Minos of Crete’s wife, and of a sacred white bull. It appeared as being part man, part bull, and was locked away in the middle of Labyrinth designed by Minos’ architect Daedalus. Every nine years, seven young men and seven young maidens were taken from Athens to the labyrinth to be sacrificed to the Minotaur…

”Marcovaldo,” from Italo Calvino, is a series of ecological allegories in the form of urban tales. Psychological insights are held back in favor of a cartoons in which facts and people succeed one another with the geometrical smoothness of movie animation. Marcovaldo, Buenos Aires, Sep 2016. Painting, sgraffito Oil on canvas. Size: 120 W x 150 H cm. © 2016 Florencia San Martin Brück/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

Voltaire and the Triumph of the Enlightenment. The Triumph, Buenos Aires, 2017. Painting, Oil on canvas. Size: 120 W x 150 H cm. © 2017 Florencia San Martin Brück/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

After the Rain, Buenos Aires, 2017. Painting, Oil on canvas. Size: 120 W x 150 H cm. © 2017 Florencia San Martin Brück/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

Golden Chrysanthemum, Buenos Aires, summer 2016. Painting, Oil on canvas. Size: Diptych 80 W x 150 H cm. © 2016 Florencia San Martin Brück/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Chrysanthemums are said to have first come from China although they are more often associated with Japan. According to an ancient Chinese legend, about 3,000 years ago, an emperor was told that the Dragon-fly Island in the Sunrise Sea (Japan) had a magic herb that would restore his youth. But since only youth could collect it, he sent a dozen young men and a dozen girls to the island. They arrived…

Bishop of Rome, Buenos Aires, summer 2017. Painting, sgraffito Oil on canvas. Size: 120 W x 150 H cm. © 2017 Florencia San Martin Brück/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Bishop of Rome, Vicar of Jesus Christ, Successor of the Prince of the Apostles, Supreme Pontiff of the Universal Church, Primate of Italy, Archbishop and Metropolitan of the Roman Province, Sovereign of the Vatican City State, Servant of the servants of God, PP, Dominus Apostolicus.

Backpack, Buenos Aires, summer 2016. Painting, Ink and acrylics on canvas. Size: 100 W x 120 H cm. © 2016 Florencia San Martin Brück/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

Inward, Berlin, summer 2018. Painting, Oil on canvas. Size: 150 W x 150 H cm. © 2018 Florencia San Martin Brück/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

Berlin, Berlin, summer 2018. Painting, Oil on canvas. Size: 150 W x 150 H cm. © 2018 Florencia San Martin Brück/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

“Abyssus Abyssum Invocat” Latin phrase meaning “One misstep leads to another” or, literally, “Hell calls hell.” A warning that the first step in the temptation to go astray from what is right (or morally correct) is difficult to prevent; however, we must always be on guard to strive for what is ethical and honorable. Abyssus, Buenos Aires, summer 2016. Painting, Oil on canvas. Size: 120 W x 150 H cm. © 2016 Florencia San Martin Brück/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

The sibyls were women that the ancient Greeks believed were oracles. The earliest sibyls, according to legend, prophesied at holy sites. Their prophecies were influenced by divine inspiration from a deity; originally at Delphi and Pessinos, the deities were chthonic deities. Sibyl, Buenos Aires, summer 2016. Painting, Oil on canvas. Size: 120 W x 150 H cm. © 2016 Florencia San Martin Brück/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

Inspirada en los textos de “Las ciudades invisibles” de Italo Calvino, es un verdadero alegato anti-consumista premonitorio del devenir. “……. las escamas de su pasado se sueldan en una coraza que no se puede quitar; renovándose cada día, la ciudad se conserva toda a sí misma en la única forma definitiva: la de los desperdicios de ayer que se amontonan sobre los desperdicios de anteayer y de todos sus días y años y lustros.” Leonia, Buenos Aires, Spring 2016. Painting, Oil on canvas. Size: 120 W x 150 H cm. © 2016 Florencia San Martin Brück/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New…

A cyborg (“cybernetic organism”) is a being with both organic and biomechatronic body parts. The term was coined in 1960 by Manfred Clynes and Nathan S. Kline. In popular culture, some cyborgs may be represented as visibly mechanical (e.g., the Cybermen in the Doctor Who franchise or The Borg from Star Trek or Darth Vader from Star Wars) or as almost indistinguishable from humans (e.g., the “Human” Cylons from the re-imagining of Battlestar Galactica, etc.). Cylon, Buenos Aires, Dec 2016. Painting, sgraffito Oil on canvas. Size: 120 W x 150 H cm. © 2016 Florencia San Martin Brück/Artists Rights Society…

Florencia Bruck creates her paintings using oil on canvas; she works with rubber brushes to remove paint creating multiple layers of different densities that are then lit from behind by custom LED structures. Illuminating the total surface is easy but she goes a step forward and illuminates only certain areas that allow the rich, deep colors of each layer to come alive and mesmerize the viewer. The light is controlled by a remote dimmer and the observer can adjust the intensity to his/her liking, creating a unique collaborative experience between the artist, the painting, the light and the viewer. The…

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…

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…