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Hanging Felinities Painting

Ilaria Caputo

Italy

Painting, Acrylic on Wood

Size: 12.2 W x 20.9 H x 0.8 D in

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About The Artwork

This painting is part of a series of works I realized onto particleboard. Here the support plays a double role. As usual, it is the physical foundation of my work. At the same time, it is also an integral part of the finished artpiece. The starting point of this work was movement. In fact, in a chip board there are many fragments of wood of different types, color and shape. By creating a surface that is at the same time uniform and varied, a particle board offers a lively background for a painting. As the opposite of movement, stillness is also present in this piece. In this case, my subject is a white cat, who is peacefully crouched onto a dark-brown wood element. This latter, with its elegant lines, recalls the Art Nouveau style. The cat is fixed as it were lost in its thoughts. However, its green eyes are investigating a point outside the painting. Maybe it is looking at its master, or maybe at a new prey - who knows? What is certain is that it is portrayed in a moment of stillness that is only a brief pause before another cycle of movement. You can also imagine an allusion to the Cheshire Cat of "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland". Even if the feline fur conveys a sense of thickness, under the white paint the different pieces of wood of the background emerge here and there. This makes the cat less real, in a sense, as if it were ready to vanish and let us only its curious gaze as a reminder of its former presence. In this work I wanted to convey a sense of peace, calm and beauty, always remembering though that nothing lasts forever. In a sense, this piece is a symbol of our lives, where we try to find an instable balance. Framed with wood batons – no additional framing required. Ready to hang.

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Painting:Acrylic on Wood

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:12.2 W x 20.9 H x 0.8 D in

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Transformation, light and the mixing of old techniques with new materials play a leading role in my recent production. The main link between my works is a quest for harmony, an attempt to describe the inner – and sometimes hidden – elegance of trivial matters. Ethereal female figures inspired by ancient Myths, flowers, fruits, peacocks and other pieces of reality are depicted in my bright figurative style that recalls the great tradition of European painting, especially the analytic approach in describing reality that was typical of both Van Eyck and the Pre-Raphaelites. My strokes are normally clean and the images neat, however I sometimes focus on a specific part of a painting, especially when an unexpected element - such as a Plexiglas layer - is inserted into the composition. In this way, the incredible potentiality of oil painting flourishes through the clear lines of a feature, in opposition to the blurriness of another one. My quest towards the soul of things pushes me often toward portraiture, this wonderful game of mirrors where the individuality of the artist merges into the inner self of the model.

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