Analyzing Pino's Youthful Pleasures
After touring the Key West Galleries last September I came upon an exhibition for the artist Pino Daeni (1939-2010) with his beautiful and eloquent assemblage of oil paintings. The piece that stood out to me most, which made me stop to examine and study, he aptly named Youthful Pleasures (See Fig. 1.) After speaking with the local curator about Pino and his work coupled with my continued analysis, I hope to be able to understand the warmth and closeness he felt while painting this exquisite piece and the love between mothers and their children.
Pino created Youthful Pleasures to show us the celebration known as love, specifically the love between mother and child together with the warmth and closeness that it brings. If he would have accomplished nothing else, I believe his best wish would be for us to understand the emotion of love. His purpose for …show more content…
After further study and research I am now able to see the tenderness felt between the subjects, how Pino was loved as a child with his own special explanation of that feeling. His artistic ability is undeniable, his story worth repeating and his point well made. Many have admired his ability to capture in great detail the emotions his subjects were expressing.
Many others have celebrated his work, some saying he was the biggest figurative artist of our time. His talents have been noted on the ability to so brightly capture the emotion and realism of a person while weaving it perfectly into the softness of the landscape and surroundings. His technique was as impressive as his projection and interpretation of beauty. The styling used between foreground and subject are a distinct sign of work from Pino, he would use a broad sweeping stroke to lay out the surroundings then proceed with fine strokes and clear precision for the
Pino created Youthful Pleasures to show us the celebration known as love, specifically the love between mother and child together with the warmth and closeness that it brings. If he would have accomplished nothing else, I believe his best wish would be for us to understand the emotion of love. His purpose for …show more content…
After further study and research I am now able to see the tenderness felt between the subjects, how Pino was loved as a child with his own special explanation of that feeling. His artistic ability is undeniable, his story worth repeating and his point well made. Many have admired his ability to capture in great detail the emotions his subjects were expressing.
Many others have celebrated his work, some saying he was the biggest figurative artist of our time. His talents have been noted on the ability to so brightly capture the emotion and realism of a person while weaving it perfectly into the softness of the landscape and surroundings. His technique was as impressive as his projection and interpretation of beauty. The styling used between foreground and subject are a distinct sign of work from Pino, he would use a broad sweeping stroke to lay out the surroundings then proceed with fine strokes and clear precision for the