Antonia Gerstacker - Art Works

Art Works

During her time in Europe, Antonia visited many of Europe's finest art museums and attractions such as Louvre in Paris. She viewed works by El Greco, Goya, Bosch, and Van Dyck at the Prado in Madrid, the Picasso Museum and Gaudí Architecture in Barcelona. She found Greece an archeology lover's dream where she returned to several times seeing dozens of antiquities museums throughout the country. These incredible masters of the arts inspired the young artist who was learning about life's creativity. The great works of artists, musicians and different cultures influenced Antonia to change careers; pursuing her passion for music and love for the arts.

Vibrant colors and stark black lines are the basis for Antonia's paintings. Humor, feelings, nature, music, the universe and the element of time influence her works. It reflects her personality and the way Antonia views the world and the people in it. It has become the essence and created the unique individual style that Antonia paints. Her compositions are simple, complex or intriguing. Her effects with whimsical quotes inspired the viewer to see things in a positive, inquisitive way. Her paintings are often simple and basic ideas of everyday objects or complicated random compositions that go beyond the familiar, making a statement about the existence and meaning of life and invites the viewer to look at the colorful side of art.

She works with multiple media, including oil, acrylics, water colors, spray paint, dyes, pastels,sign painter's enamel, charcoal, pen, multi-colored pencils, etchings, engravings, stickers, typography, xerox and computer graphics. She paints on canvas, illustration board, wood, tiles, fabric and furniture. Many different Art movements inspire Antonia. Her artwork reflects Abstract Expressionism, Fauvism, Modernism, Naïve, Pop Art, Contemporary, Graffiti Art, Symbolism, and Folk Art. She is influenced by the artists Jackson Pollock, Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat.

She continuously creates her own collection of paintings. Antonia's work is categorized into collections. Each collection represents a period in her work. To date Antonia has her paintings sorted into eight collections. The names of the collections are:Cherry Pop (1990–1995),Various Series (1994–1997), Antonia Studio (1994–1997), Good Luck (1997–2008), Happy Hearts (1998–2007),Wet Paint (2003),Five Stars (2006), and Manufactured Colors (2008). Her paintings consisted of very colorful paintings rendered in all of the basic primary colors of the color wheel. The sizes are varied. A reflection of the Minimalism art movement appears in some of her paintings. The topic of love is a frequent subject. She incorporates several different themes. The most sought after painting by her loyal art collector's was a painting titled "Spook", a 24" x 36" painting of Antonia's dedication to her beloved cat. It is painted in a memorial type setting and a large red heart on the cat's chest.

Antonia created more complex ideas developed during this period. She added words and phrases to create humor. Several paintings depicted space and time. A folksy appeal was addressed and a very dominant sense of innocence completed each painting. Her painting "Gotcha Red Hot Punk" is a collaboration of mixed media.

Antonia's sixth Collection Five Stars (2006). She used mostly blue tones. It was this show she painted her painting "Water Flowers". During this period Antonia's was interested in expressing feelings, ideas, creating abstractions and fantasies, rather than representing what is real. Antonia's work experience in the field of painting, education, illustration, graphic design, sign making and many other disciplines of the visual arts have made a major impact on the art scene in Miami. Her colorful paintings were displayed and sold to eager buyers interested in the growing art scene in Miami and all over the world. She then seriously began painting and received a successful response from art buyers. She sold every painting she had painted.

All the painting techniques she has learned have created one of the unique styles that are typically "Antonia".