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Original artwork description:
Oil on thick paper, 24 x 50 cm, 2020.
The fantastic world of animals. When I was a kid I went crazy for these small encyclopedias for children, where all the animal species were cataloged, and were represented with drawings rather than with images. Those drawings, although very detailed, left much to the imagination. It was as if some white space at the edges of the image were put there on purpose, to allow the viewer to complete, with the imagination, the work of describing that animal. Perhaps it is from this childhood passion that comes to me a certain obsession for animals, and a vice that leads me, starting from a detail or from a certain peculiarity, to exaggerate, to overstate the decorations and the colors, to allow the polyps to emit colored and psychedelic inks.
Materials used:
oil on thick paper
Tags:
#water #wildlife #animals #surreal #fantasy #psychedelic #sealife #octopus #spirals #tentaclesOctopus (2020) Oil painting
by Federico Cortese
30 Artist Reviews
£236.2 Sold
- Oil painting on Paper
- One of a kind artwork
- Size: 24 x 50 x 0.1cm (unframed)
- Signed on the front
- Style: Surrealistic
- Subject: Animals and birds
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Original artwork description
Oil on thick paper, 24 x 50 cm, 2020.
The fantastic world of animals. When I was a kid I went crazy for these small encyclopedias for children, where all the animal species were cataloged, and were represented with drawings rather than with images. Those drawings, although very detailed, left much to the imagination. It was as if some white space at the edges of the image were put there on purpose, to allow the viewer to complete, with the imagination, the work of describing that animal. Perhaps it is from this childhood passion that comes to me a certain obsession for animals, and a vice that leads me, starting from a detail or from a certain peculiarity, to exaggerate, to overstate the decorations and the colors, to allow the polyps to emit colored and psychedelic inks.
Materials used:
oil on thick paper
Tags:
#water #wildlife #animals #surreal #fantasy #psychedelic #sealife #octopus #spirals #tentacles
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Artist Reviews (30)
Federico Cortese
Italy
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I’m
like a mouse in its box. A little mouse safe in its shelter, that passes his time gnawing the
food stored for the winter. But my food are the drawings. I... Read more