Richard Taddei: Looking at Men

Richard Taddei presents an exhibit of portraits and male nudes in oil, partially abstracted, and influenced by both classical painting traditions as well as modern sensibilities. Taddei creates a breathtaking contemplation of beauty, loss and love. Artist Statement While I regard distortion necessary as a path to a different beauty and truth, I am also enamored of the sensuous volumes of the nude figure. They may be truncated or fragmented or metamorphosed, Cubistically into the geometry of armor or architecture, but they always express the grandeur of the pose.