Composition with magnolias (Composizione con magnolie) Painting

Torinese by adoption, was born in Taranto on March 14, 1917 and died in Turin on October 22, 2008. He began his artistic career under the wise guidance of his brother Simone, painter and sculptor graduated from the Albertina Academy of Fine Arts in Turin, contemporary and collaborator in the early 70s of the famous sculptor and painter Umberto Mastroianni. For over half a century Francesco Paula Palumbo has worked with tenacity and honesty, transferring on the canvas the emotions that only nature can evoke; so landscapes, snowy landscapes, flowers and fruits offer themselves to the eyes of the spectators with abundance of particular and loving care. The flower and fruit compositions are neat, almost geometric with calibrated and toned colors, creating a pleasant sensation of balance and rigor. Imaginative shapes with a strong and sure design follow each other creating exuberant weaves, which fill the surface in all its parts without leaving free spaces, so as to suggest an almost fairytale inspiration in the reproduction of an immediate and daily reality. The atmosphere of the landscapes is motionless ,snowy or green expanses push far, dotted with cities and houses, the skies are full of clouds, the animals gather around improbable human figures. Everything is built, recomposed in a geometric order, almost strictly mathematical, which expresses the intimate, almost religious, essence of the forms. The skillful technique, the stable and safe design are softened by a rich and balanced palette that animates the composition with an almost naïf range of colors. A vision of the world at the same time rational and naive, balanced and exuberant, which is the stylistic code of this author. An absolutely personal style that does not derive from schools, or rather, crosses them and revisits them all, to arrive at its own final synthesis. A tormented itinerary, which has earned Francesco Paula Palumbo many critical and public recognitions.