Gianluca Corona

Still life painting of two red fruits by the best Italian realist painter

2006

Gianluca Corona is an Italian realist artist, born in 1969, in Milan, where he still lives and works. He graduated from the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, in 1991. From 1994–96, he further trained as an apprentice, in the studio of Mario Donizetti, in Bergamo. Following his studies, he started his professional career, establishing himself on the artistic scene, as a leading figure of the young Italian figurative art movement. He has held several exhibitions in Italy and abroad and his works are present in public, as well as private collections globally. His paintings are continuously used by the record company, Musicmedia, to illustrate the covers of their CDs. His works have been praised by some of the most important Italian critics, such as Alberto Agazzani, Franco Basile, Graziano Campanini, Vladek Cwalinski, Carlo Franza, Gilberto Grilli, Gianfranco Lelj, Mario Marcarini, Pietro C. Marani, Alessandro Riva and Maurizio Sciaccaluga. Corona’s artworks are inspired by the great masters of the 1500s and 1600s, however, he can offer a contemporary re-reading of both still life and portrait genres. He is, therefore, able to combine traditional materials and techniques with a contemporary fresh and unique interpretation of his subjects, as such, he is one of the most popular contemporary Italian painters in the still-life genre.