Pietro Pantino (1941) - Cavalli

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Needs a small repair - see photo

Beautiful painting by Pietro Pantino depicting horses

--HISTORICAL, ARTISTIC, AND BIOGRAPHICAL PATH--

Historical, Artistic and Biographical Path
Pietro Pantino was born in Palermo in 1941 and already at the age of five shows a pronounced passion for drawing.

At seven years old he is attracted to painters who devote themselves to decorating Sicilian carts. At ten he paints his first picture, using a faesite support casually found on the street. At twelve he begins to learn the first rudiments from his first teacher Ernesto Crispino and, a few years later, attends Professor Albano Rossi who directs him toward the study of anatomy and advises him to enroll in the art lycée.

In 1957 the latter has him exhibited in a collective show sponsored by the municipality of Palermo and the Tourism Board. On this occasion the art critic Carlo Battaglia notices him and dedicates to him in the daily newspaper “Grido alla Sicilia” an article. In this review he achieves a good critical and public success.
----In these years at the Palermo Art High School----

e with Professor Gino Morici he studies decoration, drawing from life, cinematic and theatrical scenography.

In 1959 he meets other painters and from them learns various techniques and secrets of painting. The artist in this period also studies sculpture with Francesco Messina and Giuseppe Genovese and attends the Academy of Fine Arts of Palermo. From this experience he acquires a rich baggage and a particular artistic preparation, especially in constructive drawing, professional figurative and architectural, also doing marble sculpture and learning to model with clay.

Concurrently he learns the fresco technique and in this period works in the church “Casa Professa” in Palermo. In 1961 Pantino designs large-scale shapes and stands for the “Mediterranean Fair”.

Shortly after he meets the master Professor Sabatino Mirabella, an excellent landscape painter, and there arises admiration and friendship for the artist from the painter Mirabella. A few years later he designs small architectural constructions, illustrates plates for calendars, postcards, and fashion magazines, sacred images, boards and film posters as well as sketches for slides. In 1971 he moves to Rome, a city dear to him. Here Pantino begins a new path establishing friendships and contacts with art critics.

An artist strictly academic in temperament, studies and titles, over the years he has had numerous pupils and is a careful student of Caravaggio. He is now present in many collections.