Real love in the paintings of Ron Hicks

The work of contemporary American artist Ron Hicks (Ron Hicks) is often compared with impressionist art and paintings by Rembrandt and Honore Daumier. The artist himself says that he is inspired by Edgar Degas and Diego Velazquez.

Hicks works with a muted palette and rarely uses solid colors. All you need is love!

Ron Hicks was born in 1965 in Columbus, Ohio. He received his art education from the Columbia College of Art and Design, the Colorado Institute of Art, and the Art Students League in Denver. The work of Ron Hicks can be described as a mixture of "representational art" and impressionist styles.

Ron Hicks uses a muted palette in his work and rarely uses pure colors. He especially likes the variety of shades that he finds in gray.

The shelves in the artist's studio are lined with art books by Nikolai Feshin, James Whistler and William Merritt Chase. There are also art books about the work of John Singer Sargent, Edgar Degas and Diego Velázquez. As an artist, he follows his philosophy completely, balancing between not revealing too little and yet not making his paintings too detailed.

No wonder Ron Hicks rejects the academic approach.

In his work, Ron strives to strike a balance between saying too little or saying more than necessary. If you ask Hicks about his favorite subject for painting, he answers without hesitation: people and interiors, and his favorite medium is oil.