Abstract Paintings by Roy Soravia, 1904-2004
Both Roy and his late wife, Irene were painters. They moved to
Leucadia in the early 1960’s from Chicago, where Roy had directed the
Parnassus Gallery.
As a painter dedicated to the Op Art movement of the 1950’s and 60’s much of Soravia’s work has been recognized by experts to be reminiscent of the paintings of highly regarded Victory Vasarely and Yaacov Agam.
His belief that the use of line, color and form is more important than the representation of a given subject. His paintings are abstract —a study of shapes and color. They are very well executed.
The paintings are either acrylic or casein (which is a from of watercolor using casein as a binder). In some paintings, metallics— gold and silver are used. The paper is a heavy grade watercolor paper.
Soravia’s painstaking methods and great attention to color variations yielded work that are not only pleasing to behold but have the magical quality of changing before the viewer’s eye.
Soravia’s paintings have been exhibited in Chicago, Omaha, Davenport
Museum and in California at the San Diego Museum of Fine Arts, the La
Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla Atheneum Gallery at the
University of California at San Diego and the Coronado School of Fine
Arts.
Roy’s last painting was dated in the year 2000 and he died four years later at the age of 100.
The Soravia paintings are sold un-framed with the original, vintage matting and backing.