Highly resourced collectors and bold investors will appreciate the growth potential that Onli offers in his rare, prized, appealing, and compelling Rhythmistic Narrative Figurative Visual Art.

But wait. What is figurative Art? 

Figurative Art, sometimes written as figurativism, describes artwork (particularly paintings and sculptures) that is clearly derived from real object sources and so is, by definition, representational. The term is often in contrast to abstract art:

"Dancers Trust". 48"H X 50"W oils on linen. Circa 2015. In the rapture of music, 

the dancers trust, and sense of a harmonious bond is expressed in both touch and movement.

Available to collect.

Technically speaking, figurative art is any art form depicting a real-life image clearly. According to many historians, its advent can be traced back to ancient times, and it possesses a lineage running through several contemporary as well as modern art schools.

And what is Narrative Art?

Narrative Art is art that tells a story, either as a moment in an ongoing story or as a sequence of events unfolding over time. Some of the earliest evidence of human art suggests that people told stories with pictures.

"Danse of the 911 Phoenix". Acrylics on canvas. 30"W X 40"H. Circa 2001.  This uses the American icon of a Las Vegas Show Girl's powerfully strut to express the vitality of the American Spirit and that the evil terrorists' events of 9-11 will not prevail. Instead, this will be the phoenix moment where these challenges will blossom into the opportunity of an even greater United States of America.

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Rhythmism is a Future-Primitif Art Movement established by Onli.

Note: Picasso did not coin Cubism. Dali did not launch Surrealism. Renoir did not create Impressionism. But Onli did coin, launch, and advocate Rhythmism!

Onli was influenced by the Biblical Pentecostal Charts created by his late grandfather, The Rev. Samuel David Phillips, who raised him. Plus, his childhood readings of works illustrated by the links of N.C. Wyeth and Winslow Homer, including the power of Jack Kirby's industry moving works, along with the amazing musical contextuality of Jimi Hendrix. This was an era when visual artists and illustrators were celebrated cultural icons with radiant star power!

Here is a favored note per N.C. Wyeth:

 By 1914, Wyeth loathed the commercialism upon which he became dependent, and for the rest of his life he battled internally over his capitulation, accusing himself of having "bitched myself with the accursed success in skin-deep pictures and illustrations". He complained of money men "who want to buy me piecemeal" and that "an illustration must be made practical, not only in its dramatic statement, but it must be a thing that will adapt itself to the engravers' and printers' limitations. This fact alone kills that underlying inspiration to create thought. Instead of expressing that inner feeling, you express the outward thought… or imitation of that feeling."

Excerpts from the "I Dream of Jimi" Rhythmistic Production. 

The originals lost due to a studio fire in 2001. 

From age 16 onward, Onli would create Rhythmistic visual art to exhibit or produce in multi-media-video as tributes to Jimi's legacy as a highly visible Black creative thinker whose saw pass the fog of suffering and oppression to manifest an incendiary path to winning the Peace.

What is an Art Movement?

An art movement is a tendency or style in art with a specific common philosophy or goal, followed by a group of artists during a specific period of time, (usually a few months, years or decades) or, at least, with the heyday of the movement defined within a number of years.

Onli is that rare Black Visual Artist whose expressive intelligent Rhythmisitc art works are not bond to statements about oppression or suffering.  He is not like most artists-of-color who seem to have nothing to express other than some redundant tribute to the legacy of abuses or oppression.  

'Earth Angel". Watercolors on archival 18" X 24" paper. Circa 2022. Onli, since the first Earth Day in 1970, often produces works that addresses our role in saving and preserving Spaceship Earth and all it has to preciously offer.

Onli has always seen pass those limiting narratives into the vast potential in manifesting Rhythmism after having won the Peace. This often makes him a challenging opportunity for the World of Art that seems to have an insatiable lust for art that is so retraumatizing and often mediocre at best. 

This makes him and Rhythmism perfect for you!

You will love learning that Onli is a dedicated creative artist whose dynamic career has effectively touched upon a variety of disciplines in fine and applied visual art. He has been an art therapist, educator, and illustrator. He has also distinguished himself in painting, drawing, illustration, publishing, fashion, and multimedia production. 

This includes an extensive exhibition and publication record. He is known for having coined the term Rhythmistic in the 1970s to interpret his content and stylizations which fuse foundational primitive and progressive futuristic concepts in both fine and commercial visual art.