If you don’t mind these, if you feel you need the full dose of his Catholic deathiness, look him up on the Google. So I’ve done my best to find works that are light on the deathiness. His baroque portraiture is filled with dark and oppressive emotions of fear. Still, even with all this creepy, I like what he does with the paint. Nicola Samori is an Italian artist born in 1977. He’s in it, and I don’t think he’s pepping up any time soon. He’s been very consistently painting deathy-death paintings for years – not decades, he’s only in his late 30’s, but still. (Italian, born 1977) Nicola Samori is an Italian painter whose figurative works translate the techniques of Renaissance painting into haunting contemporary images. And it’s not like there was a year or so where this guy got a little dark. Nicola Samori is an Italian painter whose figurative works translate the techniques of Renaissance painting into haunting contemporary images. I don’t know what it is exactly, but somehow this guy makes death just way too …deathy for me. I enjoy everything about these works except the death, and you know I loves me some death. I should title this post “The Least Macabre Paintings I Could Find by the Artist Nicola Samori.” I love his figurative works: the simplified compositions, the suggestions of movement and time, his paint application style, texture, articulation and decay – even his color palette, though admittedly it’s on the darker of the very dark Italian tastes. Recent Nicola Samorì headlines, Powered by Articker.

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