"Art forces us to confront our own humanity..."
– Christopher Alfonsso
Christopher Alfonsso is a contemporary painter, sketch and digital artist. Christopher was born in South Florida to a family of French and Cuban musicians. Since childhood, Christopher has been consistently immersed in robust Latin, European, Caribbean and African creative influences which are all strongly represented in his artworks. Christopher has also gathered artistic influence from a broad variety of multicultural sources by traveling to many of the world’s most iconic art institutions, extensively studying modern and ancient art history, renaissance and neoclassical painting techniques, runway fashion, pop art, beaux-arts architecture, antiquity, art of the baroque period, fauvism, art deco, and various other styles of avant-garde art and design. Christopher’s artistic studies are themselves a raw material element of his artworks.
Christopher’s artworks seek to achieve a unified theory of art by seamlessly combining figurative and abstract elements in the same space, while demonstrating a “joie de vivre” style with a technicolor-like effect. This approach eases pictoral tension resulting from interplay and mutual relations between various elements, such as realism and decoration. It also creates direct means of enriching the inner life of the viewer, while escaping the stress of daily life. Christopher’s principle artistic influences include: Pablo Picasso, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Paul Cézanne, Henri Matisse, and Salvador Dalí. Christopher is currently living and working in the US.
