Paul Bonelli Personal Work
These are all woodcut prints, my primary medium. Black and white images are standard relief woodcuts, while color images are hand colored, in the tradition of Europe in the middle ages, using watercolor paints. Click on images to enlarge them. A History of Art shows many of the things that inspired me to be an artist and influenced the art that followed. The structure borrows from Bruegel's Tower of Babel paintings, while the items all were things from my life. These next four are from a series called Ecclesiastes , a visual adaptation of the Old Testament book, meant to carry the same effect as reading the original text, but through more contemporary imagery. These next four are from a series called Everyman , based on my reading of Butler's Lives of the Saints , an authoritative work that collects biographical information about every saint recognized by the Catholic Church, past or present. The dates are the feast days, how the books (four volumes) are organized. The
