Featured artist
Maddine Insalaco
New York, USA
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Specialty Categories
Painting/Drawing - Landscape
MIll and Treia from Vignale
oil on linen 18 cm x 26 cm |
Trees in the Aveyron France
oil on canvas 9 x 12 in |
Alpine View Bormeo
oil on aluminum 7 x 5 in |
Painting/Drawing - Still Life
Remembering India
40 x 60 in oil on canvas |
Harmony in Pink and Green
oil on canvas 48 x 72 in |
Still Life with Rembrandt
9 x 12 in oil on board |
Artist Statement
From my earliest memories I have had a strong connection to nature and the visible world. I was drawn to beauty and a sense of an ordered universe. As a struggling college student in Florence surrounded by Renaissance art and architecture I felt rich and alive in ways previously unknown. At the time I had an epiphany that this state of being was independent of economic status, that the possibility to live connected to art and move about in aesthetically organized environments would enhance the quality of existence. It was the certainty of this insight that underlay my decision to become a painter years later.
My commitment to representational painting reflects my interest in what I see around me. It is an active form of engaging the world. In the relatively short period of my tenure on this earth I have witnessed the gradual destruction of landscapes and uglification of communities in urban and rural areas worldwide. More and more people are living and dying without having any experience of natural or man made beauty. It’s hard to escape the conclusion that people just do not look at the world and experience it as a unified whole any more. The fact that few art schools today promote working from careful observation would support this. This is a troublesome development as the role of the artist has always been to help us see the world in which we live.
All of my work, whether the subject is landscape, architecture or still life, is based on conscious, sustained observation. In this context observation is viewed as an act of valuing the beauty of the visible world. The awareness of potential loss focuses my gaze on what is there now; something vulnerable, evanescent. As if by capturing a moment, a vision, or a feeling; that I could protect, preserve and transmit an aesthetic experience to others.
Bio
The New York Academy of Art New York, M.F.A.
La Scuola delle Arti Ornamentali Rome, Italy
From my earliest memories I have had a strong connection to nature and the visible world. I was drawn to beauty and a sense of an ordered universe. As a struggling college student in Florence surrounded by Renaissance art and architecture I felt rich and alive in ways previously unknown. At the time I had an epiphany that this state of being was independent of economic status, that the possibility to live connected to art and move about in aesthetically organized environments would enhance the quality of existence. It was the certainty of this insight that underlay my decision to become a painter years later.
My commitment to representational painting reflects my interest in what I see around me. It is an active form of engaging the world. In the relatively short period of my tenure on this earth I have witnessed the gradual destruction of landscapes and uglification of communities in urban and rural areas worldwide. More and more people are living and dying without having any experience of natural or man made beauty. It’s hard to escape the conclusion that people just do not look at the world and experience it as a unified whole any more. The fact that few art schools today promote working from careful observation would support this. This is a troublesome development as the role of the artist has always been to help us see the world in which we live.
All of my work, whether the subject is landscape, architecture or still life, is based on conscious, sustained observation. In this context observation is viewed as an act of valuing the beauty of the visible world. The awareness of potential loss focuses my gaze on what is there now; something vulnerable, evanescent. As if by capturing a moment, a vision, or a feeling; that I could protect, preserve and transmit an aesthetic experience to others.
Bio
The New York Academy of Art New York, M.F.A.
La Scuola delle Arti Ornamentali Rome, Italy
Gallery Representation & Exhibition Schedule
Beaux Arts, Siena ITALY
La Porta Galley, Buonconvento ITALY
La Porta Galley, Buonconvento ITALY
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