Art by nicola samori5/12/2023 ![]() ![]() If you don’t mind these, if you feel you need the full dose of his Catholic deathiness, look him up on the Google. So I’ve done my best to find works that are light on the deathiness. Still, even with all this creepy, I like what he does with the paint. He’s in it, and I don’t think he’s pepping up any time soon. Career Samorì is known for his contemporary interpretations of 16th and 17th century European artworks, although he makes also frequent references to older art styles. He’s been very consistently painting deathy-death paintings for years – not decades, he’s only in his late 30’s, but still. And it’s not like there was a year or so where this guy got a little dark. I don’t know what it is exactly, but somehow this guy makes death just way too …deathy for me. ![]() I enjoy everything about these works except the death, and you know I loves me some death. I should title this post “The Least Macabre Paintings I Could Find by the Artist Nicola Samori.” I love his figurative works: the simplified compositions, the suggestions of movement and time, his paint application style, texture, articulation and decay – even his color palette, though admittedly it’s on the darker of the very dark Italian tastes. He has also had solo exhibitions abroad in institutional spaces such as the Yu-Hsiu Museum of Art in Taiwan, the Neue Galerie in Gladbeck, the Center for. ![]()
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