Francesco Palumbo

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 ...

FRANCESCO PAULA PALUMBO

Torinese di adozione, nasce a Taranto il 14 marzo 1917 e muore a Torino il 22 ottobre 2008. Inizia la sua carriera artistica sotto la sapiente guida del fratello Simone, pittore e scultore diplomato all'Accademia Albertina di Belle Arti di Torino, coetaneo e collaboratore nei primi anni '70 del famoso scultore e pittore Umberto Mastroianni.

Per oltre mezzo secolo Francesco Paula Palumbo ha lavorato con tenacia e onestà, trasferendo sulla tela le emozioni che solo la natura può evocare; così paesaggi, paesaggi innevati, fiori e frutti si offrono agli occhi degli spettatori con dovizia di particolari e amorevole cura. Le composizioni di fiori e frutta sono ordinate, quasi geometriche con colori calibrati e intonati, tali da creare una piacevole sensazione di equilibrio e rigore.

Forme fantasiose dal disegno deciso e sicuro si susseguono creando intrecci esuberanti, che riempiono la superficie in tutte le sue parti senza lasciare spazi liberi, così da suggerire un'ispirazione quasi fiabesca nella riproduzione di una realtà immediata e quotidiana.

L'atmosfera dei paesaggi è immobile; distese innevate o verdi si spingono lontano, punteggiate di città e case, i cieli sono pieni di nuvole, gli animali s...

HAVE SAID OF HIM
"The artist has the high ability to transfuse, in his paintings, creations of his exclusive fantasy, his inner harmony; the floral compositions, landscapes and still lifes, are able to grasp lovingly to nature, always starting from the realistic datum, the secret of its beauty, understood also and mainly, as harmony and order of things "    Prof. Paola Maria Carpinello

"We also feel the religiosity with which he offers the user the chosen themes, as the pictorial context is not made by chance, but studied in compositional rhythms so that it becomes musical; but of a musicality that makes one think of a Gregorian chant due to the plurality of the chromatic voices that harmonize in perfect choral symbiosis ". Michelangelo Mazzeo

"The author, who unequivocally draws inspiration from reality, knows how to interpret it to the point of introducing an almost fairytale flavor in which experience, creative originality and natural inclination merge with excellent results".  Prof. Leonardo Echeoni

"An artist with immense still lifes, landscapes that embrace vast areas of green mixed with idyllic pastoral scenes, images that perhaps the artist would like to live, or rather, would like to relive the viewer of his pai...