Nazareno Gattamenata

Roman Scene - Artwork by Nazareno Gattamelata - 1970s

1970s

Urban Landscape is an original Contemporary artwork realized by Nazareno Gattamelata in the 1970s. Original colored oily pastels on paper. Hand signed by the artist on the lower l...

Roman Bridges and Bathers is an original Contemporary artwork realized by Nazareno Gattamelata in the 1970s. Original colored oily pastels on paper. Hand signed by the artist on t...

"My work principally consists of deeply abstracted figure compositions--intuitive constructions that begin with random marks establishing larger masses of torsos, heads, and limbs in an undefined setting. The emphasis is almost purely on intuition. The figures are born of their surrounding environment, emerging only partially and fugitively from the layers of pigment. A narrative is evident but never overt. A crown, a shield, a boat, a wheel. Though the subject has recently coalesced around my reading of Dante and Shakespeare, the settings remain extremely vague- a beach, an interior, a woodland. The paintings are, in the end, meditations on the relationship between the protagonists in a wordless drama. In my paintings, I use a cold wax medium...

Watercolor on paper Signed, verso This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City. Bill Rice was considered by such luminaries as Rene Ricard to be one of the most important painters of urban life from his generation. Rice’s depictions of inner city gay men...