Rudolph Valentino Bostic is a self-taught painter in his fifties from Savannah, Georgia. A janitor by day, he perches on his bed until late into the night with paintbrush in hand. His vibrant, often flamboyant mythical and biblical images are
rendered in enamel and housepaint on cardboard. Bostic draws his inspiration from many sources: he enjoys studying photographs of works by old masters such as Rembrandt and Michelangelo, and the television is always on when he paints, so that popular culture often finds its way into his images. These combined influences produce a dynamic explosion of color and motion on Bostic's cardboard canvases.Bostic's work was featured in the winter 2005 inaugural exhibition of the Hurn Museum of Contemporary Folk Art in Savannah Georgia. The Hurn Museum holds several of Bostic's pieces in its permanent collection; this spring, it published a catalogue, "Rudolph Bostic, Visionary Artist Retrospective 1975 - 2004", in connection with the exhibition.
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