Ride of the Valkyrie | Guillo Pérez 3 | Original Oil Painting

Original oil painting by Guillo Pérez 3 · Dominican-American contemporary artist · Available at Marcolina's Fine Arts Gallery, Tampa, Florida · Ships worldwide

Wagner wrote the music. Guillo painted the feeling underneath it. The Valkyries were not decorative figures, they chose who lived and who died on the battlefield, and they moved through that work with absolute authority. There is nothing tentative about this painting.

Guillo brings his Bauhaus Budo discipline to this subject, dynamic forms locked into a composition that holds even as everything in it seems to be moving. The color pushes forward. The figures occupy the space the way mythic figures should: completely.

What makes this painting interesting is what Guillo brings to Norse mythology that no Norse painter would have brought, a Caribbean sensibility, a Dominican-American eye, a set of references that collide with the Viking material and produce something you have not seen before.

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About the Artist

Guillo Pérez 3 is a Dominican-American painter, co-founder, educator, and cultural ambassador whose artwork and vision help define the identity of Marcolina's Fine Arts Gallery. Born in Santo Domingo and raised in Queens, New York, he is the grandson of Maestro Guillo Pérez, one of the Dominican Republic's most respected painters and a recognized figure in the U.S. State Department's Art in Embassies program, and the son of master painter Willy Pérez. Three generations of unbroken serious painterly practice. His work hangs in the permanent collection of the Skylands Museum of Art alongside Salvador Dalí and Pablo Picasso, and is held by private collectors in over 48 countries.

Working from Tampa, Florida, he has developed Bauhaus Budō: a synthesis of Bauhaus design discipline and the meditative rigor of martial arts. His work has been exhibited across the United States, the Caribbean, and Europe. The New York Times recognized him as a "Star Maker."

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