Quick access : Portraits Extases Gravures scènes de vie | ![]() Olto is an artist-painter born in Toulouse in 1972 of Spanish parents. He started painting at a very young age. Creation was always for him an essential element for his artist’s blossoming. Self taught artist , he likes Pop Art from the 60’. His artworks also contains elements of cubism, of surrealist and expressionist painting and comic strip. He uses acrylic paintings, Indian ink, black lead, watercolour, to which are sometimes added various matters used in mixed technique. He favours the spontaneity of the gesture. One of his ways is the portrait's exploration. His paintings are often human faces with great expressivity, or moving characters from whom he trys to extract singularity. Mains artistics references : Cinema : David Lynch, Fritz Lang, Hitchcock, Painting : Francis Bacon, Edvard Munch, Toulouse-Lautrec Drawing : Egon Schiele, René Princeteau, Léonard de Vinci Photography : Man Ray, Sarah Moon... |
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