{"product_id":"roberta-castellano-parole-amore-riflessi","title":"Roberta Castellano - Words - Love - Reflections","description":"The canvases are respectively of the following dimensions:\n\u003cul\u003e\n\n\u003cli\u003e 40x50\u003c\/li\u003e\n\n\u003cli\u003e 30x30\u003c\/li\u003e\n\n\u003cli\u003e 50x50\u003c\/li\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\r \nThe human figure has always been at the center of artistic research. Since the classical age, the naturalistic rendering of human anatomy has been a primary goal of painters and sculptors throughout history. The representation of the female figure is an expression of this aspiration, which spans all eras and stylistic movements. Indeed, in addition to the naturalistic interpretations of the Renaissance and various classicisms, which aimed for a truthful and detailed representation of the human body, the female figure has also been a central figure in the new aesthetic concepts brought about by the historical avant-garde movements, such as Cubism, Expressionism, and Surrealism. The female figure is central to the research of painter Roberta Castellano. Her self-portraits and other female figures she chooses as subjects, in addition to creating extremely interesting works from a formal standpoint, are imbued with profound symbolic implications.\r \n\r \nRoberta Castellano's female portraiture stands out for its interesting formal and conceptual implications. Indeed, her works are already strikingly aesthetically powerful at first glance. Her female figures are strikingly plastic, captured in close-ups and with highly distinctive visual angles, occupying almost the entire work, creating their own space. The formal care taken in rendering naturalistic and physiognomic features is extremely high, yet always executed with an expressionist pictorial style, charged with existential vibrations. This is, in fact, how the painter seeks to connect her female figures to deeper meanings that engage the very egos of the subjects, leading the viewer's gaze beyond mere appearance. Thus, the application of color becomes material, and the subjects' volumes are characterized by a certain disintegration of form or a highly expressive \"unfinished\" quality. In other cases, the painter connects the portrait directly to the written word, leaving on the canvas those words that come from the deepest intimacy of her female subjects.\r \n\nRoberta Castellano is a Milanese artist. She first attended the Liceo Artistico (Art School) and then the Brera Academy, where she graduated in scenography. Her first artistic experiences were in the fields of set design, decoration, and restoration. She later devoted herself to painting, focusing her research on the female figure, in a body of work that combines formal values ​​with profound symbolic meanings.\n","brand":"Battistuzzi Gianantonio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56217838453122,"sku":"GBATT001","price":2500.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0909\/7065\/3058\/files\/Roberta-Castellano-Rifletotssi-Olio-su-tela-50-x-50-2-copia-scaled.jpg?v=1768468708","url":"https:\/\/cjfh11-ee.myshopify.com\/en\/products\/roberta-castellano-parole-amore-riflessi","provider":"Venderequadri","version":"1.0","type":"link"}