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Framed.\u003cbr\u003e\n One of the last 3 sanguine paintings left available.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Michele Praticò","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56628965441922,"sku":null,"price":3000.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0909\/7065\/3058\/files\/zelF3wIlxh.jpg?v=1776161830"},{"product_id":"eleganza-e-vanita","title":"The Messenger of Day and Night ","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; tab-stops: 134.25pt;\"\u003e \u003cspan lang=\"IT\"\u003eIn The Messenger of Day and Night, Michele Praticò constructs a simple and symbolic scene, dominated by primary forms and bold colors. At the center, a double panel evokes the eternal cycle of time: the rising sun and the watching moon. Next to it, a stylized zoomorphic figure—half fantastical creature, half archer—seems to advance like an ancient messenger, guardian of the passage between light and darkness.\u003co:p\u003e\u003c\/o:p\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; tab-stops: 134.25pt;\"\u003e \u003cspan lang=\"IT\"\u003eThe work combines irony, instinct, and spirituality, summarizing the artist's poetics in a few simple strokes: interpreting the world through symbols that transcend reality, to narrate the constant dance of opposites that governs existence.\u003co:p\u003e\u003c\/o:p\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; tab-stops: 134.25pt;\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"IT\" style=\"font-size: 1.0pt; line-height: 115%;\"\u003e\u003co:p\u003e\u003c\/o:p\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; tab-stops: 134.25pt;\"\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\"\u003eThe Messenger of Day and Night\u003co:p\u003e\u003c\/o:p\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; tab-stops: 134.25pt;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\"\u003eIn The Messenger of Day and Night, Michele Praticò creates an essential, symbolic scene defined by bold colors and primal forms. At the center, a divided frame evokes the eternal cycle of time: the rising sun and the watchful moon. Beside it, a stylized zoomorphic figure—part fantastical creature, part archer—steps forward like an ancient herald, guardian of the passage between light and darkness.\u003co:p\u003e\u003c\/o:p\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; tab-stops: 134.25pt;\"\u003e \u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\"\u003eThe work blends irony, instinct, and spirituality, distilling the artist's vision into a few expressive signs that narrate the perpetual dance of opposites shaping existence.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Michele Praticò","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56628965409154,"sku":null,"price":2400.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0909\/7065\/3058\/files\/KmHikLYScj.jpg?v=1772033060"},{"product_id":"tenere-il-passo","title":"Keeping Up","description":"\u003cp\u003e The painting in all its dimensions shows a majestic, abundant and graceful, strong, dynamic woman... indicating her vital force and energy, synonymous with life.\u003cbr\u003e \nThe Woman accompanied by the dog, a figure always linked to fidelity that not only accompanies and guides on the path of Life, but acts as an intermediary between the Earthly and Spiritual worlds.\u003cbr\u003e\n We see a woman clinging to a support as if trying to hold herself up. The support in this case is the Master Beam, and to stay on the right path, we perceive it in motion. Keeping the Step is precisely the representation of magical feminine authority, wisdom, and spiritual elevation that transcends the limits of the intellect.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n\u003cp\u003e Michele Praticò's oil on canvas painting represents a metaphysical reunion of the universe, the perennial perpetuation of the cycle of life through a violence of color that leaves one enraptured.\u003cbr\u003e\n It is interesting to note how the artist conceives it through the woman (parental nature), the feminine role as a starting point and centrality for the human race.\u003cbr\u003e \nThe trinity expressed here is testimony to an unconscious feeling of faith, which, through the brush used with a skillful hand, creates an indelible furrow in the conscience of the viewer.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Michele Praticò","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56628965376386,"sku":null,"price":3000.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0909\/7065\/3058\/files\/w63thSjRdp.jpg?v=1776162561"},{"product_id":"scorcio-di-casa","title":"Glimpse of the house","description":"\u003cp\u003e In this painting, Maestro Praticò shows the movement of nature with colors and textures that generate harmony, making us relive our deepest and most serene memories, imagining for a moment abandoning everyday life and immersing ourselves in the sweet scent of pure and noble thoughts.\u003cbr\u003e One of the most curious features of the painting “Glimpse of a House” is the use of color, contrasting colors that give a sense of movement and energy to the artwork.\u003cbr\u003e As in all of Master Michele Praticò's works, the symbolism is rich. The colors of the flowers and the thick-trunked tree symbolize time and the cycle of life. Other esoteric symbols are also referenced, but left to the viewer's interpretation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Miche Praticò is a painter-poet. \u003cbr\u003eHis canvases offer stunning examples of the conversion of painting into poetry. A poetry expressed through clear, soft drawing, mastery and sensitivity, supported as it is by the artist's fresh imagination and inexhaustible inner strength that allows him to present nature with its infinite chromatic resources, with panoramas of distant horizons, with the wonders of plants and animals: a mirror of a world that speaks to the sensitive soul in a barely whispered but no less intelligent voice.\u003cbr\u003e This is why Maestro Praticò sees painting as a new path that he interprets with commitment, clarity, and methodology, without the irreverent fury employed by many, but with the purifying clarity of a subject naturally drawn to the search for beauty and freedom, but above all for truth, where there is room only for dreams and hope. \u003cbr\u003eAn interpretation of certain values ​​that ensures that Michele Praticò's pictorial themes translate into images where the subjects of his paintings are always linked in a harmonious composition that associates them in the scene and the story. Even the color that constructs them, sometimes overflowing into nebulous mediums, contributes to further connecting the characters in the paintings.\u003cbr\u003e The most evident meaning of this painting is found in the determination of the moment represented as a propositive and conclusive instant. The naturalistic element is present in the diverse pictorial expressions of Michele Praticò's production, as the predominant and most figuratively engaged characterization.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Michele Praticò","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56203674878338,"sku":"112249","price":3500.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0909\/7065\/3058\/files\/scorcio_di_casa_1.jpg?v=1768319653"},{"product_id":"canto-proibito","title":"Forbidden Song","description":"\u003cp\u003e The painting The Forbidden Song is a work of art by Maestro Michele Pratico created in 2021.\u003cbr\u003e\n The canvas appears as if it were divided into two sections, for each of which the Artist creates two different figures as if they were two distinct works, but which complement each other in a Universal sense.\u003cbr\u003e \nLooking at the left side of the canvas, \"Figure 1,\" one can apparently see a member embraced by two opposing yet complementary figures, male and female, like a pair of lovers. This expresses duality, opposites that harmoniously complement each other.\u003cbr\u003e\n The right side depicts a crowing rooster, with his body turned towards figure 1, but his head turned away to announce, but also as a symbol of warrior vigilance.\u003cbr\u003e\n In this masterpiece, it is life itself that manifests itself, with everything in motion yet apparently stable.\u003cbr\u003e\n Praticò's paintings, the fruit of a sometimes irreverent creativity, bring to attention the chromatic contrasts inherent in uncontaminated nature, which often escape the attention of most people due to the frenzy and pressure of time and money.\u003cbr\u003e \nWhat the viewer is left with is an initial sense of bewilderment, faced with a seemingly elementary painting, but then a fascination sets in, the same fascination that can convey the ancient flavour of folk tales, which with their formal simplicity conceal profound contents that can only be detected by attentive and trained ears.\u003cbr\u003e\n The artist Michele Praticò becomes the direct and ingenious intermediary in the narrative plot, transferring into his works the deepest meaning of the \"Metaphors of the Real\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Michele Praticò","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56203674976642,"sku":"112250","price":250.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0909\/7065\/3058\/files\/1emTe7m86K.jpg?v=1776163278"},{"product_id":"incondizionata-fedelta","title":"Under Umbrellas of Light","description":"\u003cp\u003e Three elegant figures cross a square suspended between dream and reality, illuminated by vibrantly colored umbrellas. 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A fusion of colors and movements suggests a captivating presence, impossible to define but easy to sense.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Michele Praticò","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56203681923458,"sku":"112369","price":3000.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0909\/7065\/3058\/files\/whatsapp_image_2026-01-10_at_13.55.32_-_copy.jpg?v=1768319769"},{"product_id":"senza-titolo-39","title":"Untitled","description":"\u003cp\u003e Mixed media on canvas, 70x50 cm\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Michele Praticò","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56203723014530,"sku":"112676","price":2000.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0909\/7065\/3058\/files\/YT2bfW4vXa.jpg?v=1776270865"},{"product_id":"e-tutto-qui","title":"That's All There Is","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this abstract composition, the artist constructs a visual universe in which the pictorial material becomes the custodian of layers and impulses. The vibrant hues—red, yellow, blue—intertwine in a fluid and vibrant interplay, evoking an ever-changing internal structure. The dense and dynamic brushstrokes suggest a process of sedimentation and expansion, as if the canvas were traversed by currents of thought and vision.\u003cbr\u003e\n The central form, suspended and circular, stands as a generative nucleus, a gathering and revitalizing point. Around it, the color moves, opens, and becomes complex, in an ongoing dialogue between what is held back and what tends to transcend. The work thus takes the form of a liminal space: a place of transition, synthesis, and tension toward an elsewhere not yet defined, but already intuitively present.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Michele Praticò","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56203723047298,"sku":"112677","price":2500.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0909\/7065\/3058\/files\/20250422_142255.jpg?v=1768320047"},{"product_id":"senza-titolo-40","title":"Untitled","description":"\u003cp\u003emixed media on canvas\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Michele Praticò","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56203723145602,"sku":"112678","price":2800.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0909\/7065\/3058\/files\/20250422_142417.jpg?v=1768320048"}],"url":"https:\/\/cjfh11-ee.myshopify.com\/en\/collections\/michele-pratica.oembed","provider":"Venderequadri","version":"1.0","type":"link"}