Landscape

Like other photorealist works, this painting comes from source material. The original image is from a European magazine of an Argentinian glacier seen through tropical foliage. While painting this canvas that nearly filled the studio, Raffael found himself changing his painting style for each section; the leaves, the rocks, the glacier, and the sky were all treated differently. After seven months, he finished and removed the canvas from his studio. When he saw it from a distance for the first time, he judged it as a “cleansing ritual” that determined his signature style.