FEATURED ARTIST
The Painter of
“The
Mother
Earth”
Who is William Vive?
William Vive is a painter and master of
surrealism. He is most famous for painting
“The Mother Earth,” a collection of paintings
celebrating the beauty, majesty, and serenity
of our planet. He was born November
17, 1965, and became enamored with art
from a young age. He experimented in
childhood with both realism and fantastic
art. He has an intense love of colors
and his paintings are full of vibrancy and
the joy that many bright colors exude.
Moreover, he has participated in many
artistic movements in Latin America,
often distinguishing himself as one of the
foremost painters. His work includes
many art exhibitions in Latin America,
Australia, the United States, and Europe.
His unique style has attracted the attention
of professionals, ecologists, and women’s
rights activists from many countries.
Why is he so great?
William has acquired the talent of blending
the beauty of the feminine with the
magnificence, perfection and divinity of
mother earth. For example, Mother Earth
is often personified as a partly clad sleeping
figure that has been blended into the
landscape of the painting, usually as a string
of hills or mountains in the background, but
sometimes as an extension of a plain. In one
painting, she is sitting upright interacting with
the faces in Mount Rushmore. One of his
goals is to express nature through painting
in its pure state. So he aims to catch the
nuances of what we see in nature, those
simple sites that generate awe, wonder,
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“Peace on Mother Earth”
Oil/canvas 121 x 125 cms 2010 inspired by and dedicated to michelle obama
and a sense of beauty, and translate them
into painting. This might be a field of flowers,
trees lining a mountain in the distance, or
the roll of clouds across an expanse of
sky while birds sing their tunes. Whatever
William is painting, you can be sure that a
great portion of the painting captures the
expanse of the beauty of nature. Moreover,
the beauty of the feminine form is woven
into this landscape, almost personifying
the serene and peaceful aspects that
characterize the feminine in our imagination.
He paints in a variety of styles including
popular paintings, reproductions, flash
paintings, spin painting, and drip painting.
Biography and Achievements
Art became a passion of his life in childhood.
In his adult life, he has participated in two
art studios, the Escuela de Bellas Artes in
Corozal, Sucre in 1979 and the Centro
de Educacion para La Vida at Sydney,
Australia in 1994. He also participated in Art
Dubai, United Arab Emirates in 2012 and
he participated in Biennale Internazionale
dell'Arte Contemporanea Citta di Firenze,
Italy. He is currently participating in a
digital exhibition in the entrance to the
Musée du Louvre in Paris where four
of his paintings were being continually
displayed on a large digital screen during
the 12th, 13th, and 14th of June, 2015. This
project was organized by the Museum of
the Americas located in Miami, Florida.
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William has changed the way people
see nature, but especially the divine
feminine. His goal is to help us
appreciate the beauty of women without
objectifying them. Instead, the beauty
is woven into the fabric of the beauty
of the earth that is around us every
day, a beauty that is to be appreciated,
nurtured, and cared for. The serenity
of women and nature remind us that
both women and nature can be subject
to painful destruction, conquest, and
objectification. It is up the viewer of the
paintings to decide upon a better path.
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