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The Custodian
The Custodian
The Custodian
The Custodian

The Custodian

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W 43.00cm x H 43.00cm x D 1.50cm

USD $2,912.00

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    Detail

    Medium

    Painting (Oil painting)

    Edition

    Original Artwork

    Year

    2021

    Sign

    Artists' signature on the back of the artwork

    Frame

    Unframed

    Description

    I have always been fascinated by round "tondo" paintings from the Renaissance, and after making my copy of Raphael's "Madonna della Seggiola", I felt the need to paint a tondo of my own.

    For quite some time I had had an image stuck in my head. It was the vision of a supernatural being guarding and protecting the Earth in his hands with absolute care and self-sacrifice, like a life mission. The round shape of the empty board gave me the inspiration to paint them.

    This was initially intended to be a painting with a mythological theme, but something more personal already emerged from the sketch. I also wanted to play with the elements, with the Earth, Sun and Moon, and with a skin-colour inspired by certain sacred beings of Hinduism and Buddhism.

    This painting was made on a plywood poplar board, an elastic and thus extremely resistant board over time. I prepared the poplar board with Bologna plaster and glue in the traditional way. The sides are painted in oil like the rest of the painting, so it can also be hung without a frame. It already has a hook that also allows to understand exactly how it should be oriented.

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    Deeply fascinated by the Symbolist movement of painting, Enrico is currently focusing on creating images from personal visions and inner imagery. In order to do this, he draws inspiration from natural places and often starts his new paintings en plein air, surrounded by unspoiled nature, and finishes them in the studio . His subject matter mainly revolves around the themes of the unfathomable and the indecipherable in the individual and in nature, and in the relationship between the two.

    Enrico is an enthusiastic supporter of the recent revival of traditional painting techniques. Embracing this, he constantly studies, reproduces and draws inspiration from the great oil Masters in art history: from Raphael, Leonardo and Titian, to Rembrandt, Corot and Waterhouse. A lover of gentle lines and harmony in shapes and colours, he considers himself to be an aesthete, and is always looking to create shapes and compositions that please the eye and invite the mind to explore and wander.

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