By Ruggero Vanni
Located in New York, NY
Ruggero Vanni's Ver Vernat (Spring Swirls) is a 62 x 84-inch abstract gestural oil painting. It is an abstract landscape of vigorous brushstrokes and light, with a luminous central focus. The primary colors are purple and blue. There are explicit references to the masters of the Hudson River School, also known as Luminism, and the Romantic paintings of English artist William Turner. The connection to a spring sunset's sky is clearly there, with a feeling of motion, like clouds pushed by the wind, in a swirl of colors and shapes. Vanni works with various brush strokes, from very large to extremely small and detailed. As the viewer approaches the painting, they will be surprised by a continuous change in the texture.
Vanni states, "My works allude to natural phenomena, in a raw state, devoid of the limiting constrictions of literal representation. Nature is there as a landscape, a view looking up in the air or plunging underwater. Imagery is kept on the edge of recognition, creating the final association in the mind.
Contrasts of matter, color, and light are created to provoke emotional responses. In the large paintings, the atmospheric composition is built by raised brushstrokes shattered and reassembled to reveal an underlying struggle. In the smaller works, paper is cast tumultuously as a counterpoint to its inherent frailness.
References to the history of painting are multiple and mixed: Venetian impasto and glazing, Luminist light, Abstract Expressionist texture, and Baroque perspective.
It is important to avoid mannerisms, metabolize the suggestions and integrate them with empirical visual stimuli.
Dissecting responses to everyday experiences into light, color, and matter. There is no intent to escape reality, but to create a visual experience that communicates directly with our psyche, open to be reinterpreted continuously through our evolution and the changing times."
Ruggero Vanni was born in Paris. He studied painting from 1973 to 1978 at the Istituto d'Arte in Rome, Italy, under the guidance of Italian artist Michelangelo Conte...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Ruggero Vanni Paintings
