The Council - Original Mixed Media on Canvas | Rita Irvin

Eleven masters, one table, one moment across time.

I painted eleven figures from art history sitting together: Leonardo da Vinci holds his palette beside the words "Sapere Vedere / Vedere è Conoscere" (To know how to see / To see is to know). Salvador Dalí dangles his elephant on strings above a melting clock. René Magritte presides over his green apple, with "Ceci n'est pas une pipe" scattered below. Picasso appears in a cubist mask and sailor stripes, his words floating overhead: "Je ne cherche pas, je trouve." Frida Kahlo anchors the center in a flower crown and rebozo. Van Gogh paints beside her, his brushstrokes cascading into a starry sky. Rodin's Thinker watches from the background in pencil. Kandinsky's geometric forms orbit the composition. Georgia O'Keeffe stands in dark hat and pearls, magnolias blooming behind her. Andy Warhol stands at the edge, a Campbell's Soup can at his side. And at the bottom, Jean-Michel Basquiat: a paint-splattered crown hoodie, the body gone, the mark remaining.

Beneath the table, koi swim through roots and ruin, and a bull skull rests in dark water. I scattered the masters' own words across torn paper: "L'art est un mensonge qui nous fait réaliser la vérité," "Surviving the storms that were never supposed to be mine," "the chaos was the catalyst."

Painted in acrylic, oil, and mixed media on canvas. My most ambitious original to date.

• Size: 48" × 77¼"
• Medium: Acrylic, oil, and mixed media on canvas
• One of a kind original
• Ready to hang
• Signed by the artist
• Shipping note: if shipping outside of Florida, this painting will be shipped rolled (unstretched) and will need to be stretched upon arrival
• Free shipping in the US and Canada. Includes a signed Certificate of Authenticity.

About the Artist
Rita Irvin is a self-taught mixed-media artist raised in West Berlin, Germany. Her paintings work through memory, emotion, and transformation, built in layered textures and imagery. Influenced by Dalí, Frida Kahlo, and Georgia O'Keeffe, Rita developed her own visual language without formal training, shaped by years in interior design and a lifelong immersion in art and architecture. Every piece is a one-of-a-kind original, made by hand and never reproduced.

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