Francis Di Fronzo

Francis Gregory Di Fronzo (born November 15, 1969 in San Pedro, California, USA) is known for his strikingly realistic and ominous landscape paintings.

Di Fronzo started his career as an artist in the late 1980's in Southern California under the guidance of painter, Jeffrey Carl Horn.

In 1996, Di Fronzo left Southern California to study painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts where he began to develop his unique brand of landscape painting.

"I was always attracted to landscape painting ... all the notions of romance, beauty and nostalgia. These associations were nothing more than a kind of human projection. To me,the landscape was brutal, unsympathetic to human emotion and, above all else, it was savage."

Di Fronzo's paintings exhibit a kind of simplistic beauty but also reveal a baleful look at the world.

Di Fronzo was awarded a Pew Fellowship in 2004.

External links

* [http://www.francisdifronzo.com/index.html Francis Di Fronzo]
* [http://www.pewarts.org/2004/difronzo/index.html Pew Fellowship]