Isabella Scarpato - Difesa

Oil on canvas, signed
March 2026
Rome, Italy
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PRESENTATION OF THE ARTIST AND HER PAINTING THEMES

Isabella Scarpato, today a teacher and painter, began painting at the age of 8.
She pursued artistic studies since high school, graduated in 1995 in painting, and qualified to teach in painting disciplines and fashion. The artist creates figurative-realistic artworks, traversing two important painting phases.
The first painting season finds her focused on African and Asian faces, with intense gazes and warm colors, unmistakably from distant lands between the East and Africa, countries of an unspoiled and authentic civilization, she loses herself, or better, she finds herself again. The embroidery, the banded garments, the turbans, and the accessories among the hair adorn a sanctuary where the artist loves to dwell, and in which she manages to seal the strong emotions she feels, in years very important in her life. The second painting season opens in 2013. We see on canvases and panels, of ever-different sizes, Western female faces, always women, of rare beauty. The faces of French, Russian, Scandinavian models populate her works, gifting a display of incredible elegance and refinement. Her palette lights up, becomes more vivid, the warm colors cool down, and a dusty veil is lifted from her eyes, seeking clear colors, softened contrasts and smooth lines, for a harmonious chromatic composition.
Isabella searches the internet for the most interesting subjects, through the roll of bold and experimental photographers, then chooses the emotion that most concerns her, the eyes that can give instant answers. She also decides to change something about the chosen woman: a scarlet earring, a puffed sleeve, a copper necklace, the color of a tunic, something with which she can leave a mark and re-semantize the favored image.
A true grand objective looms behind her painting career: the search for female faces that can not only speak to her soul but also stimulate important questions. The emotional range she gives life to is full of intensity and aesthetic beauty, a union that invites quiet observation and the viewer’s immersion, who always finds, in one of them, something of themselves. Anger, disappointment, hope, rebellion, rest, challenge are just some of the themes that have made her women so beloved. Isabella has been exhibiting on Catawiki since November 2016 and, until about a decade ago, she physically exhibited her works in solo and group shows, in Naples, Rome and Florence. Her works are today chosen from Europe to the East, achieving, to the artist’s great satisfaction, the stimulation of new stories and questions, a faculty that only art is capable of possessing.