Antonietta Corsini - Ophelia

The work can be included in the large production dedicated by
Antonietta Corsini to the female figure, immersed in a nature with distinctive features
poetic. But where this type of subject was inspired by small pieces of
everyday life, in the case of this work the theme is suggested by a cultured
literary and artistic quotation at the same time. The figure of the body without
Ophelia's life, floating on the surface of the water, as well as referring
to Shakespeare's Hamlet, it refers to a very famous work by
Pre-Raphaelite John Everett Millais. The cultured quotation, thus, allows us to give
further emphasis on the symbolist aspects of Antonietta's pictorial style
Corsini.

The artist Antonietta Corsini is also specialized in the production of
watercolor, and he was able to interpret this technique by enhancing its
features in a vision with modern and original features. Even in the
literary quote, of symbolist taste, the painter starts from reality and
transfigures in the intense expressionism of his watercolor technique.
reality thus becomes a total pictorial vibration with decidedly distinctive connotations
existential, the result of an exercise of pure perception by the artist. From
formally speaking, all this is explained by taking it to its maximum consequences
the expressive potential of diluted color. The refined sensitivity of
Antonietta Corsini expresses herself in recording the action of light on things, but
This exercise is carried out with a strong poetic sense that conforms the
representation of sensory data. Thus the light almost dissolves the objects,
transferring them into the timeless dimension of memory. Light and color
they act in unison and this means enhancing the art of watercolour in a
coherent representation that maintains its connection with reality, but the
transfers into a highly lyrical dimension.

Antonietta Corsini was born in Rimini, where she lives and works. She graduated in Painting.
at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna, he began to exhibit his works at
starting from the 90s. Since his first solo and group exhibitions, the artist
creates essential and evocative images that address, in a careful and
sensitive, the themes of family affections, everyday life and memory.
In the 90s he created a series of Mater that celebrate the theme of
motherhood, female generativity and the unique and sacred relationship that binds
Mother and son. Specialist in ancient painting techniques, she collaborates exclusively with
from 1999 to 2004 with Edizioni Musei Vaticani for the reproduction of some
masterpieces kept in the Vatican Pinacoteca. Corsini thus began to favor
techniques from a distant past, focusing on research and
recovery of procedures derived from ancient treatises, with the aim of evoking
suggestive atmospheres and to obtain unique pictorial effects. In particular, the works
on wood and parchment they resume the use of egg tempera on the background
gilded according to the dictates of tradition. Since 2008, he has been experimenting with art
sacred through works of religious subject and artistic and decorative interventions in
modern places of worship which are characterised by their vitality and modernity
Christian message, interpreted by the artist in the light of his profound
spirituality. In parallel with his personal activity, since 2006 he has been holding courses in
Painting Techniques of the Rimini School of the 14th Century at the Rimini Museum
and conducts educational workshops in various schools, as well as training sessions for art teachers. The museum experience inspires
also the author's research which, through a subtle operation
conceptual, begins to transform his subjects, mostly portraits, into icons
contemporary "classics". The museum is therefore not only for the artist
as a place of contemplation and knowledge, but also a source of inspiration
creative thanks to the ever-present lessons of the great Masters of the past.
Today Corsini is engaged in an increasingly in-depth investigation
on the invisible that hides in the visible, through the use of brushstrokes
expressive and bright and transparent color overlays, in order to
recreate a new dimension evoked by rarefied and spiritual atmospheres.
Thus the private intimate sphere becomes universal and the representation
of everything the artist loves – dear faces and presences that accompany him in the
everyday life – acquires a “different” meaning while the narration, from personal,
becomes everyone's. The latest works, inspired by the tradition of the great watercolorists
English, focus on the theme of love for nature and the desire for
to grasp with a gaze full of amazement the extraordinary that lies hidden
in the ordinary. During and after the lockdown, he organizes online workshops of various
painting techniques for private individuals, schools and associations, both in Italy and abroad
United States, combining them with museum workshops and intense educational activities
for schools of all levels. Antonietta Corsini's works are
preserved in public and private spaces in Italy and abroad.

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