Golden Love on Red and Blue
Golden Love on Red and Blue
Description
Acrylic and spray paint on canvas board. Combination of a hand-cut stencil technique, splatter art, blending, and spray paint. Each color is carefully chosen to contrast against each other to pop on the canvas. Some colors have sublet blending pastel look to them.
Dimension
12” X 12” X 0.25”
Executed in 2020.
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Artist Bio
Local resident and Miami Beach-Native, Stencil and Splatter artist, Jorge Jose Morales created a visual language of love, joy, and intensity filled with shapes, rhythm, and bold lines.
Born in Bronx, New York, and raised in Miami Beach, Florida, Morales is an artist that uses vibrant and chaotic imagery and fun stencil shapes and words to reflect an optimistic view of the world.
At an early age, Morales sketched, where he could on buses, trains, and planes using his art to communicate his innermost thoughts expressing intense emotions.
As a young man in high school, Morales worked on many art projects developing his skills with transforming ideas on paper to larger than life murals and banners.
In his final year of attending highschool while painting mural in the night school’s principles office, the young artist received a recommendation from the night school principal, the friend with famous artist Romero Britto, to work at a nearby art gallery Britto Central.
After an interview, the recent graduate obtained a position as studio assistance.
Working closely with International Artist Romero Britto for 8 years, Morales learned how to use vibrant colors, thick lines, unique patterns, and experimental collaborations to enhance his art. While working at Britto Central, the artist craved additional mentorship from an artist and sought an apprenticeship with Lazaro Amaral, local Miami Beach Screen-Printing-Cuban-Artist, and teacher, and gained silk screen printing experience. Print Artist Amaral helped Morales gain speed, direction, and a developed process for his art.
In his quest growth, the stencil artist completed many murals and art installations in the city of Miami Beach.
Next, the artist knew that he needed to expose himself to a new environment and joined the Army.
As a soldier, Sgt Morales completed murals in Basic Training, while Deployed in Afghanistan, developed, created, and designed several T-shirts for units and perfected the screen printing skills, splatter technique, and stencil techniques.
After many years of service, the veteran artist now shows the world his talent.
Morales explodes into the art scene showing the lines, rhythm, shapes, and colors from Britto, the increased technique, speed, and refined process from Amaral, the stenciling, screen printing, and splatter painting from experience, and the joy, intensity, and love from life.