Richard Gillette
"Black paintings have always been one of my favorite, and still to this day, people have a hard time with black, but again, its such an important element in the works of Georges Braque, Matisse, and Caravaggio. What would that work be without it? Matisse and Ed Ruscha and Franz Klein are some of my favorite artist’s whose works are all about Black…and…Black is better than a color.
Glankoff’s motif’s that appealed to me, the one’s that I’ve selected, struck me as Classical or Greco-Roman, as opposed to Asian, because a lot of Sam's images are rooted in an Asian iconography.
With this restrain in the works I have chosen, it allows for a kind of introspection that the vivid color distracts from.
The surfaces are gorgeous. Part of the beauty of having these reproduced is to be able to have more than one, and how they relate to each other, is so incredibly sexy.
You can even imagine if you had a group of them framed in both white and black frames…if a person really wanted a touch of color, an earthy red frame would be sensational."
A painter by training and passion, Richard Gillette has chosen to work on the most ubiquitous of canvases: the twenty-first-century interior. Combining a lifetime as a painter, with thirty years of design experience, Gillette creates visionary spaces that are inspired by great works of art.
Gillette's style palette ranges widely; from Cubism to Minimalism, Re-Raphaelite, and Deco to Rococo. Each one of the twenty interiors in Gillette's The Art of the Interior monograph , was inspired by a central and unifying piece of art.
