Antonio Soriano (1952) - Donna gitana

Antonio Soriano (born 1952), a self-taught Neapolitan painter, aims to carry on the historic school of Neapolitan masters of the 19th century.

The work is characterized by a deft handling of material chiaroscuro. The artist does not proceed with thin glazes, but builds the volumes through a rich impasto, where the color is deposited with direct brushstrokes that retain their physical identity on the surface.

The work is placed in a figurative post-impressionist milieu, with evident allusions to the tradition of material realism of the twentieth century. The emphasis is on the expressiveness of the gesture and on the density of the pigment, elements that confer the portrait with an almost sculptural vigor, typical of the currents that carried the nineteenth-century tradition toward the modernity of the twentieth century.