Stefano Puleo | The values of beauty

I try to translate and reproduce with my themes and colors, the cultural experiences of the great European painting of the 20th century.

Artists that have influenced my work are certainly Cézanne, Picasso, Matisse, the fauvists, and many other masters.

In art you can find something that is not evident in everyday life: serenity, harmony of forms, strength of color, but above all, the imagination that allows you to travel inside the painting and reinvent it.

I believe that style is not chosen, it comes from itself. It arises unconsciously from your culture and experience. You realize your thinking, you paint what your preparation allows you. You diversify yourself because visual culture and pictorial experience is different for each of us.

The value of art is given by the ability of a painting to convey emotions that involve the viewer. Quality is essential, more than the subject, the composition and the trajectory of an artist.

Transcendence is the necessary condition to give impulse and energy to my work. Always trying to find more is the basis of my life as an artist. Never being completely satisfied with the paintings I make is proof of how crucial it is.

I try to express in my paintings the values of beauty.

–Stefano Puleo