To Have Known Frida Kahlo

    Intense emotion for another artists work and overwhelming powerful connection to the artist themselves can seem spiritual or even mystical. The feeling enthralls and drives an unseen force through the hands of the artist; like pulsating synapses of energy from one mind to another and a pure understanding of the others  pain, heart break, and their life. From a madness comes the vision and then the creation of visual form in which another can see but never feel the roots from which it grew.



 Rick Moreno Knows Frida Kahlo; may be not in life but in a surrealist world of rich color and inner vision he has touched the artist who inspires the depths of his mind and the soul of his art. The doors of his sanctuary are seemingly ordinary; just another street... just another house... just another person living within, but beyond the threshold is a world that is culturally emmense, bursting with vibrant hues and symbolism of ancient beliefs and ideals. Rick lives for his art.

Creative energy radiates through him as he speaks in a  uncontainable excitement, for which only the surfaces on which he paints is powerful enough to contain. Passionate seems so vague a word to describe ,  but when there is no words to depict you must let the work speak for itself. 



Although the painting is not completely exposed in this photo it is stunning and breathtaking with it's vibrant with motion and colorfully full of life.

 



Frida is present in much of Ricks work, but she is not just a inspiration or a influence, nor is she muse. It is holy and beyond mortal understanding. Their are some who are truly immortal. Their eternal life enriches the lives of those who may exsist in other time but are connected though a high power, and it is that unexplainable phenomenon of two souls connected over decades of time which the art of Rick Moreno is created.

I greatly admire not only Rick's work and his connection to Frida but I also admire him as a person. Just like his paintings he is vibrant, full of life and culture; there is no mistaking that this man breathes art and it is rooted deep in his soul, which he shares unselfishly with everyone he meets. He is truly a amazing man and artist and I am honored to know him.