Frank was one of the last of the great religious visionary apocalyptic painters. He saw his 1960’s paintings of catastrophe in Manhattan come true... Reclusive from the art world and refusing to sell his work (his “visuals” were not commodities), he wasn’t nearly as widely known as he could have been.
Raw Vision Magazine Issue 262 - April 1, 2022 https://news.rawvision.com/t/ViewEmailArchive/j/0050EB97456F12572540EF23F30FEDED/C67FD2F38AC4859C/
“I just want to get [God’s] message out,” Frank Bruno explained when we first met, “I don’t give a **** about anything else.”
Raw Vision Magazine Issue 95 - Autumn/Fall 2017
If you like your art sugar coated don't bother looking at any more of his paintings. If you would like to see some visionary art... see his paintings.
Tally Ho - December 20, 2009 Joeb
http://joeb-tallyho.blogspot.com/2009/12/frank-bruno-is-serious-artist-no-bs.html
“Today I call out with my paintings, they are my voice...” Bruno said, "They stutter and tremble and are unintelligible at times, yet they call out a warning."
The Daily Dispatch - December 18, 2003 Xavier Zaragoza
Bruno paints his premonitions, and what he foresees is the end of the world, which isn't pretty.
The Washington Post - November 9, 2003 Paul Richard
...After college, he was employeed by Southern Pacific Railroad. Then began a nine-year period of studying art through correspondence courses and books -- hundreds of books.
Dilettante Press - March 13, 2002
Dayle Hazelwood
"I can see the end coming very soon," Bruno said. "But some people aren't paying attention." Bruno believes in the magic and symbolism of biblical numbers and in the imminent arrival of the Antichrist.
The Daily Dispatch - April 10th, 1999
Xavier Zaragoza
"I don't do it because I enjoy it... "Bruno says, "I've just got this mission to accomplish. I feel I am on fire; I've just gotta do it and do it."
PhoenixMagazine, March 1997
Amanda Mitchell-Kingsbury
...very detailed style, using an iconography all his own.
Contemporary American Folk Art,
A Collectors Guide - 1996
Chuck Rosenak
...the paintings of Frank Bruno, a Washington artist unlike any other, unlike any artist anywhere!
The Washington Post - June 9, 1968
Paul Richard
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