Blueseries – Neptune byi Silvio Porzionato
Silvio Porzionato pays homage to the masterpieces of the great masters of classical art that have guided his path as an artist. Silvio Porzionato’s oil painting was inspired by Lambert-Sigisbert Adam’s 1733 marble “Neptune calming the waves”, now on display at the Louvre in Paris.
As unstable as the sea, feared and respected, Neptune is the god dear to sailors, the one who governs the power of the oceans while wielding the Trident, the huge three-pronged pitchfork, in his right hand.
NEPTUNE by SILVIO PORZIONATO
The several fragments of blue that Porzionato creates with multiple strokes move in every direction and appear to us as a wrathful sea, from which the imposing figure of the god rises, wielding his trident as if to cleave and calm the waves.
Through painting, Porzionato succeeds in realizing a complex imagery of elements belonging to different worlds, where the softness of the oil becomes water and merges with the severe, marble image of the sculpture and which the artist transposes, faith to the original, giving life, however, to a new dimension and perception of this work. The setting itself is a combination of places and elements dear to the artist, we find in the background details of the Trevi Fountain and the windows of the Metropolitan Museum, while the central figure is enriched by some of the hands from the sculptural complex “Ugolino and his sons,” now housed in the Metropolitan Museum in New York.
Neptune by Silvio Porzionato: https://www.rossettiartecontemporanea.it/opera/nettuno-blueseries/
