Vertical Horizon Drawing

Anna Barone is an Italian artist. In art she is Nanako, a Japanese name, inspired by the passion for manga thanks to which she started practicing drawing and illustration from an early age. She attended the Art Institute of Naples "Umberto Boccioni" graduating in advertising graphics and photography with honors. During her life she worked on commissioned paintings and portraits, studied decoration and painting on various supports such as canvas, wood, glass, fabric (with experience also in printing techniques) and used various materials. However, the preferred support remain paper. In her works, Nanako often uses combinations of watercolors, acrylics, marking tools and other materials such as chalks and gold leaves. Inspiration is music. And the nature, the mental journeys and the emotionality of the artist who, expressing herself through abstract art and surrealism, evokes alternative visions. She loves the way in which the evanescence and transparency of watercolors contrast with the linearity of the inks, thus improvising original figures... transfigured elements, dreamlike landscapes. The continuous repetition of decorative elements gives the figurative parts unconventional characteristics. The artist transmits on paper the fragility of human feelings and his vision of reality, loading it with a strong symbolic value, metaphor for the events that surround us.