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Sitting woman Painting

Daniel Romano

Argentina

Painting, Acrylic on Canvas

Size: 43.3 W x 43.3 H x 1.6 D in

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A latinamerican woman sitting, waiting. Art Review Julio Sánchez, Art curator She has a full figure and is 56 years old, though she looks younger, and assures that the Mary Kay opportunity is fabulous, because before it she spent the day confined in a sewing workshop: twelve women and the noise of the sewing machines, the dry skin and the tortured hands. L.G. When I was forty-two years and seven months old, Heaven was opened and a fiery light of exceeding brilliance came and permeated my whole brain, and inflamed my whole heart and my whole breast, not like a burning but like a warming flame, as the sun warms anything its rays touch. H. von B. The life of human beings creates such an intrigue, such a pleasure, such an uncertainty. The city dweller that walks along the street, one hot day, is such a mysterious Pandora's Box. How many wonders must Alcuin have written in his lost Life of Charlemagne, that giant of 1.93 m that could unify Europe towards the year 800? Biography is a literary genre that still delights readers, it doesn’t matter if it is about a beauty products seller interviewed by the journalist Leila Guerriero (in her book Frutos Extraños, 2009) or the autobiography of the mystical German Hildegard von Bingen (in her work Scivia, 12th century). It doesn’t matter if they tell us about a working day or a bonding experience with God, everything that happens to the other happens, happened or may happen to all of us. In painting, the equivalent genre is portrait and all its variations: collective, official, self-portrait, nude, etc. Daniel Romano is deeply interested in the human being, and that is why he paints it over and over again. In each of his pieces we can find men and women, children, adults and old people. Probably, each panting originated from an individual, concrete, tangible and visible being; then, the artist shaped the particular signs according to his own experiences, banished the photographic details and enjoyed the subtle movement of the paintbrush, the discreet priming of the acrylic and the intense modulation of color. What do Daniel Romano’s characters have in common? The artist prefers the figure and background formula, but without overloading one with the other. Everything is discreet. Sometimes, the backdrop that protects the actors is neutral; there are lines that barely insinuate, they could belong to a baseboard, a chair or a checkerboard. He is not interested in the precision, but rather in the imprecision. Almost all of them, or rather all of them, look directly to the spectator. In baroque portraits, the characters were absorbed by the drama and, suddenly, almost hidden, there was one that came out of the scene and examined us with the look. Nothing similar occurs in Daniel´s paintings. The connection is direct; there is only one main character that looks at us all the time, with no mercy, without distractions. If any of them came to life, as a Pirandello’s character searching for the author, he would surely shake our hand looking at us into the eyes, honest, straightforward. Many of them are standing, others are sitting, and no one is involved in a specific action. Clothing is ordinary; there is little glamour, but no domestic negligence. What do they do, that is the big question. They seem to be posing, standing, facing forward, with the only purpose of being portrayed. The action (or the almost non-action, similar to the Chinese wu-wei) involves two people: the one that paints and the one that is painted. Once it comes out of the studio, the painting does not have a painter and needs a spectator, a person that could look at the woman with the violet little jacket, the man with green trousers or even the little group with 3D glasses. Maybe the passion for biography or portrait lies here, in the deep need of the human being to communicate with others, in the void that needs to be filled out. In each of these paintings, we find men and women, children and old people and we can imagine thousands of stories about them, but Daniel has detected in all of them (in all of us) that need to fill out the void. Julio Sánchez Bachelor of Arts in Art History (U.B.A.) and Master in Cultural Management

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Painting:Acrylic on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:43.3 W x 43.3 H x 1.6 D in

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DANIEL ROMANO He was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in March of 1965. He is the grandson of immigrants who settled in Argentina looking for a better place to raise a family. His grandparents were, on his mother's side (Norma Beatriz), Joaquín Gomes Da Silva, who came from Figueira Da Foz, Portugal, and Rosa Traversaro, whose parents came from Genoa, Italy, and, on his father's side (Héctor Francisco), Francisco Romano, born in Calabria, Italy, and Agustina Carol Bayle, Catalan by birth. He spent his childhood and adolescence in Mar de Ajó, where he attended primary and secondary school. At the age of 9, he took his first drawing lessons given at the local night secondary school. In 1974, he won the First Prize in the "Sopena" Drawing Contest. Back in Buenos Aires, he studied law for some time, until he changed course and took up graphic design. He got a degree in Visual Communication from University of Belgrano. In 1993, he created Neuman Romano Design Studio, where, together with his partner and his team, he pursued his professional career in communication and design. He specialized in corporate and editorial design. He has always been interested in photography, so he took traditional and digital photography lessons. In 2005, he studied traditional photography at Motivarte School of Photography, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He developed as interior designer in different places. His aesthetic interests led him to be in constant touch with different fields of visual arts. www.danielromano.net IG @artedanielromano IG @danielromanonet

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