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…

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…

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…

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…

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.”

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…

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…

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

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…

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…