As I was perusing my favorite blogs the other day, I came across an amazing artist on Susannah Breslin’s intelligent and sexy blog, The Reverse Cowgirl. His name is Anthony Ventura, and his mind-blowing prints are featured at a limited time through Sexy Art Gallery in London. They are simply amazing. He uses rich colors: blood reds, midnight blues, and cotton candy pinks to create moody, eye-catching pieces. Some are part of a fetish series, and these are erotic and provocative without being the slightest bit vulgar. His art is created through a variety of methods: painting, drawing, and computer. Ventura’s prints are Renaissance meets Alice in Wonderland. Each painting is a dream world, concocted of larger than life characters where surrealism and eroticism mesh. His females are tantalizing, stunning, albeit dangerous Botticelli-esque goddesses: their bodies are voluptuous; their facial features are exaggerated as if blow-up dolls; and their gangly, serpentine legs seem to be never-ending appendages. Ventura’s women are the queens who rule over his strange and fascinating psychedelic universe, and he is their god.
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