BEAUTY: Painting--Nicola Verlato

Neo-realist painter Nicola Verlato was born in Verona, Italy but now lives and works in Brooklyn. His hallucinatory scenes of conflict feature people floating, flying or twisting in some kind of powerful, violent, invisible maelstrom--a spiritual vortex of some sort. Particularly interesting are his portraits of James Dean, seen in the last three paintings at the bottom. The first painting is a depiction of Dean's fatal car accident, while the last two are based on Dean's appearance in the film "Giant."


Top to bottom: Another episode of violence in the never ending fight between images; Cleveland Mississippi 1932; Hooligans 6; IF; Stairway To Heaven; The Deep Religiosity of Capitalism; The Death of James Dean; The Failure of Beauty; The Failure of Beauty II

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