Emilio Navarino - Nude

The 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 nude is the ultimate expression of this aspiration, pervasive across all eras and stylistic trends. 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 nude has also been a central figure in the new aesthetic concepts brought about by the historical avant-garde, such as Cubism, Expressionism, and Surrealism.

As this painting demonstrates, Emilio Navarino's painting is firmly rooted in objective reality, yet the artist is capable of interpreting it with an expressionistic style that translates the data of the sensory world into emotion. Indeed, we note how this nude begins with a perfect naturalistic rendering in every detail: the proportions, the salient volumes, the physiognomic details, and the truth of the expression. All these qualities Navarino achieves through a remarkable drawing technique. Color, however, is entrusted with the role of spiritually elevating this figure, through a soft painterly style that blurs the modeling into space and illuminates it with an incidental light.

Emilio Navarino is a painter originally from Grottaglie, in the province of Taranto, where he was born in 1958, but currently works in Bologna. He demonstrates a solid artistic background: he possesses a remarkable technique that allows him to achieve precision and objectivity in the naturalistic rendering of his subjects. At the same time, however, through a personal interpretation of the pictorial layering, he manages to imbue his works with a suffused poetics, in what can be described as a figurative style with an expressionistic edge.

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