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Arnaldo Roche

Arnaldo Roche (1955 - 2018) was active/lived in Illinois / Puerto Rico.  Arnaldo Roche is known for Modernist figure-to abstraction, still life, portrait.

The following was written and submitted by Jean Ershler Schatz, artist and researcher from Laguna Woods, California:

Arnaldo Roche-Rabell was born in Puerto Rico in 1955.  He began as an architecture student at the University of Puerto Rico but later decided to switch to painting.  He earned both Bachelor of Fine Arts and Master of Fine Arts degrees at the Art Institute of Chicago.  While there he adopted the Neo-Expressionism then in vogue. His is an intense personal approach; he gets as close as he can to his subjects.  He covers their bodies with canvas or paper and traces the contours with his hands.  He works by first applying thick layers of paint directly to the canvas and then placing the canvas on the model, who frequently is his mother.  He traces his use of frottage, the technique of rubbing, to the public school for the arts he attended in his native town of Santurce in Puerto Rico.

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