Art World of Matthew Felix Sun

12 Paintings Completed in 2011 on Flickr.Via Flickr: 12...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:00:50 -0700

12 Paintings Completed in 2011 on Flickr.

Via Flickr:
12 Paintings completed in 2011

From Left to Right:
- Dreamland
- Green Abstract 2011
- Untitled Abstract 2011 I
- Untitled Abstract 2011 II
- Untitled Abstract 2011 III
- Green Abstract 2011
- Laundered Clothes
- Colony
- White Dresses
- White Dress with Birds
- In Distant Country
- Pierce

© Matthew Felix Sun
www.matthewfelixsun.com

DSCN1465 _ La Fenice, Venezia, 13 October on Flickr.Via...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:02:00 -0700

DSCN1465 _ La Fenice, Venezia, 13 October on Flickr.

Via Flickr:
Teatro La Fenice di Venezia (La Fenice Theatre in Venice)
Two smaller halls, ideal for intimate recitals; though smaller and less elaborate, were no less beautiful.

DSCN1399 _ La Fenice, Venezia, 13 October on Flickr.

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:59:36 -0700

DSCN1399 _ La Fenice, Venezia, 13 October on Flickr.

DSCN1407 _ La Fenice, Venezia, 13 October on Flickr.Via...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:58:47 -0700

DSCN1407 _ La Fenice, Venezia, 13 October on Flickr.

Via Flickr:
Teatro La Fenice di Venezia (La Fenice Theatre in Venice)
When I returned to Venice in October 2012, there was no performance scheduled in La Fenice then, so I took solace in touring the theater - a self-guided tour, with no entry time and duration constraints. For an extra fee, visitors were allowed to take photos and videos of the pale green and gold color schemed auditorium, breath-taking for its almost too ornate, extremely detailed yet subtle beauty. Words fail me here so I’ll let the image to speak instead.

Diptych - Dawn - 5th 2013 ArtSlant Showcase Award on Flickr.Just...

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 20:24:55 -0700

Diptych - Dawn - 5th 2013 ArtSlant Showcase Award on Flickr.

Just won another award - 5th 2013 ArtSlant Showcase Award.

"Diptych - Dawn" won another award

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 06:36:00 -0700

5th 2013 Showcase Winner

Diptych - Dawn

Category: painting

My new painting “Diptych - Dawn” just won a Artslant Showcase award. The ArtSlant Prize is a Showcase Series designed to exhibit and promote talented artists from around the world. The Showcase has six rounds per year, and in each round artists may enter one image and compete for different stages of winning status.

See my other awards listed on Flickr.

11 Paintings Completed in 2012 on Flickr.Via Flickr:11 Paintings...

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 11:00:59 -0700

11 Paintings Completed in 2012 on Flickr.

Via Flickr:
11 Paintings Completed in 2012, From Left to Right:
- Gestures
- Oedipus
- Paris and Three Goddesses
- Helen of Troy
- The Eyes of Electra
- Orestes
- Heavenwards
- Icon
- Discordance and Harmony
- Submerge
- Snowy Mountain, III

© Matthew Felix Sun
www.matthewfelixsun.com

Oil Painting “Heavenwards” and two framed versions -...

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 11:00:47 -0700

Oil Painting “Heavenwards” and two framed versions - 2012

Matthew Felix Sun

Grand Canal, Venice / 大運河，威尼斯 / Großer Kanal, Venedig on...

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 21:17:37 -0700

Grand Canal, Venice / 大運河，威尼斯 / Großer Kanal, Venedig on Flickr.

Giving away: Grand Canal, Venice, Colored Ink on Paper, 5.25” x 8.5”
See my original post on my Facebook Page and like it to enter the drawing. Deadline 6/25/13.

5 paintings, 2 installations completed this year! Left to...

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 14:43:39 -0700

5 paintings, 2 installations completed this year! Left to right:

Congregation, 30”x24”
Father and Son, 20”x16”
Niobe, 33x16.5
Stringed White Dresses, 14”x20”
Diptych - Dawn, 24”x30” & 24”x30”
Last Trip - A Dream, 22”x28”
Rowing, 22”x28”

Painting Congregation and two framed...

Sun, 09 Jun 2013 07:30:30 -0700

Painting Congregation and two framed versions

30”x24”, 2013

Niobe / 尼俄柏 / Niobe on Flickr.Via Flickr: Niobe Paper, Ink and...

Sat, 08 Jun 2013 15:21:20 -0700

Niobe / 尼俄柏 / Niobe on Flickr.

Via Flickr:
Niobe
Paper, Ink and Oil on Paper, Wooden Frames
33” x 16.5”
Completed in 2013

© Matthew Felix Sun
www.matthewfelixsun.com

“Last Trip - A Dream”, Painting and Framing...

Sat, 08 Jun 2013 07:30:26 -0700

“Last Trip - A Dream”, Painting and Framing Choices

22”x28”, 2013

fuckyeahlaughters: goldenclitoris: searchin for the booty

Fri, 07 Jun 2013 12:43:10 -0700

fuckyeahlaughters:

goldenclitoris:

searchin for the booty

St Michael defeats the Devil, Saint-Sulpice, Paris, June 2008 -...

Fri, 07 Jun 2013 07:30:53 -0700

St Michael defeats the Devil, Saint-Sulpice, Paris, June 2008 - IMG_8148 on Flickr.

Via Flickr:
My Favorite Paintings at Église Saint-Sulpice, Paris
My second favorite painting in Saint-Sulpice was St Michael defeats the Devil, again by Delacroix. This painting had the similar atmosphere and dynamism as Wrestling. The major difference was that St Michael was mounted on the ceiling therefore the St Michael’s triumph was presented as a brilliant celestial vision and his victory had a cosmic feeling versus the more intimate and personal one of the Wrestling. The colors in this painting was more brilliant and the Archangel occupied the absolute center of the painting, being the unchallenged center focus of this celebratory and lovely painting.

Berkeley Art Museum (BAM), University of California, Berkeley

Thu, 06 Jun 2013 15:16:00 -0700

Berkeley Art Museum (BAM), University of California, Berkeley

Jacob Fights with the Angel, Eugène Delacroix, Saint-Sulpice,...

Thu, 06 Jun 2013 07:30:25 -0700

Jacob Fights with the Angel, Eugène Delacroix, Saint-Sulpice, Paris, June 2008 - IMG_8145 on Flickr.

Via Flickr:
My Favorite Paintings at Église Saint-Sulpice, Paris
The sight of this gnomon in the obelisk shape was unusual but it couldn’t hold my interest long and soon I wandered away to see many magnificent stained glasses and then, in the Chapel of the Holy Angels, some unforgettable mural paintings by Eugène Delacroix, who painted scenes from The Bible, in the effort to repair the extensive damages the church suffered during the Revolution.

My favorite mural there was the Jacob Wrestling with the Angel, dynamic in composition, romantic in scene setting and the result was both somewhat unsettling and absolutely beautiful.

Painting “Father and Son” and frame...

Wed, 05 Jun 2013 13:27:00 -0700

Painting “Father and Son” and frame choices

20”x16”, 2013

Wed, 05 Jun 2013 13:22:00 -0700

Painting frame choices. Rowing, 22x28, 2013

The gnomon, Saint-Sulpice, Paris, June 2008 - IMG_8142 on...

Wed, 05 Jun 2013 10:14:27 -0700

The gnomon, Saint-Sulpice, Paris, June 2008 - IMG_8142 on Flickr.

Via Flickr:
My Favorite Paintings at Église Saint-Sulpice, Paris
Old European churches are often art treasure troves and Église Saint-Sulpice in Paris is just on of such amazing institutions.

According to Wikipedia, at 113 metres long, 58 metres in width and 34 metres tall, it is only slightly smaller than Notre-Dame and thus the second largest church in the city. It is dedicated to Sulpitius the Pious. During the 18th century, an elaborate gnomon (part of a sundial that casts the shadow), the Gnomon of Saint-Sulpice, was constructed in the church.

Many people learned of this cathedral through Dan Brown’s bestseller, The Da Vinci Code, while I through a French opera, Jules Massenet’s Manon. In both works, pivotal scenes took place in this cathedral, therefore it earned a few paragraphs before I narrate on my favorite paintings it housed.

Art World of Matthew Felix Sun

12 Paintings Completed in 2011 on Flickr.Via Flickr: 12...

DSCN1465 _ La Fenice, Venezia, 13 October on Flickr.Via...

DSCN1399 _ La Fenice, Venezia, 13 October on Flickr.

DSCN1407 _ La Fenice, Venezia, 13 October on Flickr.Via...

Diptych - Dawn - 5th 2013 ArtSlant Showcase Award on Flickr.Just...

"Diptych - Dawn" won another award

11 Paintings Completed in 2012 on Flickr.Via Flickr:11 Paintings...

Oil Painting “Heavenwards” and two framed versions -...

Grand Canal, Venice / 大運河，威尼斯 / Großer Kanal, Venedig on...

5 paintings, 2 installations completed this year! Left to...

Painting Congregation and two framed...

Niobe / 尼俄柏 / Niobe on Flickr.Via Flickr: Niobe Paper, Ink and...

“Last Trip - A Dream”, Painting and Framing...

fuckyeahlaughters: goldenclitoris: searchin for the booty

St Michael defeats the Devil, Saint-Sulpice, Paris, June 2008 -...

Berkeley Art Museum (BAM), University of California, Berkeley

Jacob Fights with the Angel, Eugène Delacroix, Saint-Sulpice,...

Painting “Father and Son” and frame...

Painting frame choices. Rowing, 22x28, 2013 © Matthew Felix Sun

The gnomon, Saint-Sulpice, Paris, June 2008 - IMG_8142 on...