Giorgio Dario Paolucci - Figure

Portraiture is one of the most widespread artistic expressions, especially in painting, but also in sculpture, throughout the ages. Portraiture is, first and foremost, a description of the subject depicted, an attempt to capture their physiognomy and individual characteristics truthfully and naturally. With the progressive evolution of artistic research, the physiognomic description of the subject has also been accompanied by a psychological one. Therefore, over the centuries, portraiture has also become a means of introspective investigation of the subject, their character, and their state of mind. The processes of abstraction brought about by contemporary art have contributed to this type of investigation. The style of painter Giorgio Dario Paolucci, in much of his work, is characterized by the development of a strongly expressionist language. The artist seeks to go beyond what is perceived by the senses to extrapolate the true essence of reality and communicate it on canvas in a lively and dramatic manner. For this reason, through the application of color, he develops a highly synthesised process that reduces subjects to dense, material layers, in which the painter's emotion is also central, conveyed through his brutal gestures. This gesture is also expressed in an extreme simplification of facial features and the use of a simple black line to delineate volumes. All these elements together constitute the expressionistic power of Paolucci's painting, which is based on a deliberate regression of the pictorial image to a raw state, further exemplified by the accidental nature of the relief material. Giorgio Dario Paolucci was born in Venice in 1926 and passed away in Asolo in 2019. Encouraged by De Pisis, he abandoned his scientific studies and devoted himself to self-taught painting. He exhibited for the first time at the Galleria Ongania and won the Bevilacqua La Masa Prize before he was twenty-five. He received numerous awards, from the Venice Biennale to the Rome Quadrennial. Defined as "the solitary painter," resistant to formulas and trends, he followed Gino Rossi's expressionist artistic temperament, giving strength to his peasant faces.

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