Super back Painting

Reaching out for beauty is, one might say, a natural instinct possessed by all. When encountering art, we are often prompted by our senses to engage in an aesthetic experience. In Pazza Pennello's series of drawings, the artist's quest for beauty, mainly through canonical female representations, meets the spectator's own quest for aesthetic pleasure. The anonymous gawky hand, which eventually becomes the artist's signature, invites us to approvingly grin at those candid scenes. Even more, to recognize our own nature as viewers and perhaps voyeurs, accomplices of the artist when contemplating the beauty of a female nude. A woman she might be acquainted to or one she might have met through works of great masters such as Gustave Courbet, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres and Peter Paul Rubens, among others. The accessible format and subject of Pazza Pennello's series "Reaching out", as well as it's episodical comical facet incites us to pleasantly grasp a theme crucial to art and life, which is the aesthetic experience.