<p>A devoted anarchist and satirist, Italian artist Enrico Baj expressed this in many of his works. The militant figure here, is shown as a bloated, incompetent buffoon, which is more than his subt...

<p>Fred Weidmann&rsquo;s &lsquo;Psy-Art&rsquo; fuses a surrealist landscape within a fantasy setting. If studied closer, there is a menagerie of detailed fantastical wildlife embedded within the st...

<p>The broad vertical brushstrokes that Pantaleoni drenches the canvas with here, bears a resemblance to stalks of sapphire grass swaying in the breeze with a great reddish oak planted casually aro...

<p>We burrow deep into the earth&rsquo;s pockets below the numerous layers of pink, blue, and green crusts. Down, down, down to the very center of the world where bright orange magma savagely gesta...

<p>Throughout most of the 1960&rsquo;s, Pantaleoni continued to reinvent himself through his abstract works and the use of basic shapes as a starting point (in this case circles). In previous works...

<p>The artist paints his garden with fire here. The flames work the wild flowers up into frenzy, teasing them almost to the brink of an all-encompassing inferno. Some of the violets seen here and t...

<p>Pantaleoni&rsquo;s rather broad, almost playful brushwork here clearly marks the beginning of his evolution as an artist. His time in and around the canals of Venice sparked tremendous experimen...

<p>Each year the spring season blankets nature with fresh new beginnings. Flowers bloom with majestic radiance and the animals bask in the warm sun. This piece encapsulates that same spirit wonderf...

<p>One of the more dense abstract pieces by Pantaleoni thus far. There is a gaggle of the common shapes and now feature three dimension cubes which gives the whole piece a tremendous amount of dept...

<p>This piece looks as though it may have had some Asian influence behind it. The crimson rectangle scribbled with the black and white calligraphy-like writing, the ominous black dot hovering above...

<p>Cut from the same artistic cloth as Black Calligraphy on Red, the use of overlapping lines at the corners of the rectangles are explored further as well as large areas of empty space in and arou...

<p>&bull; Beginning counterclockwise from the upper left stands a blue glass carafe placed furthest from the other subjects. Directly below on a white porcelain plate is a grouping of a lemon, a pa...

<p>Beginning counterclockwise from the upper left stands a blue glass carafe placed furthest from the other subjects. Directly below on a white porcelain plate is a grouping of a lemon, a pair of y...

<p>Mowing down the center of a blue field like a trippy slab of highway leading to an outlandish dimension where shapes are the dominate species, we begin Pantaleoni&rsquo;s road trip to abstract e...

<p>This piece could resemble a stained-glass window placed on a stone blue pedestal in total disarray. Now, imagine a blind clergyman standing before his congregation, running his fingers lightly o...

<p>A m&eacute;lange of janky stalactites and stalagmites push their way above and below and above again like a woven patchwork of colored ice crystals in a dark cavern. And yet, this infectious gro...

<p>Pantaleoni descends further down the rabbit hole with another abstract series, beginning with this piece. The patches of yellow, red, blue, white, and specks of pink are all melded as one to cre...

<p>During the same decade, Pantaleoni&rsquo;s abstract experiments would fluctuate dramatically. This piece for example, is unlike anything he has done before. It&rsquo;s so radically different in ...

<p>An immense multi-colored dam has been cobbled together from salvaged, mismatched bits of stone and brick manages to keep the city&rsquo;s irrigated river at bay and from flooding into the blue v...

<p>This chandelier fashioned from broken crystal, pottery shards, and the artistic vision of Ideo Pantaleoni represents the last in this particular series of his abstract paintings. The orange frag...

<p>The levels of complexity increase tenfold in this collage of sorts. This is one of those paintings where the observer may get completely lost in. One observer might decide this as a bird&rsquo;s...

<p>The empty oblong holes shaved out of the orange and white rectangles, give the shapes a sense of depth and character. Also of note, the perfectly aligned blue spaces produce a minor optical illu...

<p>It is as if Pantaleoni placed a leaf beneath a microscope and took inspiration from the wall of cells he saw through the viewfinder. He then thickened up the outlines with black and filled in th...

<p>A white wall of billowing curtains, accented with streaks of pink, blue, purple, over a gray backdrop. The fabric has been sliced diagonally into two uneven swatches. This is a very uncomplicate...

<p>There&rsquo;s a great deal going on in this piece. To begin, the twisting highway of blue and white lines are like an octopus flailing its tentacles as it plunges downward into the murky depths ...

<p>The nomad stands on the mountain top with a blue sky punctuated by a thick white mist behind him. He takes a deep breath, exhales, and surveys all of his surroundings. No matter how many times h...

<p>Yellow balls stripped with black are stacked four high inside a dark wire pen within the blue trailer of a cargo truck. They&rsquo;re all tightly packed so escape is impossible. The two captives...

<p>For the first and only time, the model&rsquo;s pose takes on a literal 180 degree turn. Her free flowing hair, resembling loose yarn, carefully secludes most of her right side. Pantaleoni, worki...

<p>The ghostly apparitions of husband and wife emerge from a wall of fog clinging to one another for support as the yellow-faced reaper shuffles them to their doomed destination, keenly aware that ...

<p>The greenish tree trunk pattern infuses familiar elements from Pantaleoni&rsquo;s other abstract paintings such as the thick brushstrokes pouring down the canvas, the hovering black circle, and ...

<p>Pantaleoni&rsquo;s fascination with simple shapes and monochromatic color is displayed once again in this piece. Blue coats the backdrop like an acrylic tarp. The &ldquo;eye&rdquo; splits into t...

<p>When a bridge&rsquo;s foundations are built upon tectonic plates this may be the result. The shattered remains drift in the dark blue depths below and the locals and tourists alike can do nothin...

<p>Concrete Art from the M.A.C period in Italy. The lime green backdrop is a change from the steady stream of blues that have dominated Pantaleoni&rsquo;s other abstract works. The blue and orange ...

<p>Concrete Art from the M.A.C. period in Italy. The towering pink refrigerator-esque object in a turquoise backdrop is a bit more minimalist in execution. Notice the wide amount of surrounding unt...

<p>At the center of the off white canvas is an oval porcelain plate containing two fish, with their heads facing away from each other. Below the plate rest two limes and to the right three bulbs of...

<p>A porcelain bowl cascading with concord grapes over the side like a semi-sweet waterfall. On the table touching the draping fruit is a single lime. At the right, a single green apple, and one an...

<p>Pantaleoni&rsquo;s artistic quest marches on, this time in this series of the human form. This model exudes a particularly melancholy mood, which is further enhanced through her body language. N...

<p>Sneaking a peek inside your grandmother&rsquo;s knitting basket while she&rsquo;s having one of her afternoon cat naps, you might see something resembling this painting. Hundreds of feet of yarn...

<p>For the first time in this series, yellow becomes one of the more dominant colors here, surrounding the painting with an ethereal aura. The mountain of purple sugar cubes in the center backgroun...

<p>Verticality returns once again in this final piece of Pantaleoni&rsquo;s early abstract series. From the top, the first two circles hover ominously above it all and are several lighter shades of...