Giorgio Cole
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CONTEMPORARY ART REVIEW
artwork and my sincere desire to devise for others an environment of fear, folklore, and fantasy.
Naturally, when I think of the human figure, I am brought back to my early days of sketching in charcoal and pencil. I first learnt to draw the nude figure with a stick of charcoal and was able to use my fingers to shade and compliment the body with shadow and contrast. Now, so many years later as I paint, I still naturally go back to my roots of portraying the majority of my figures in black and white. You will see examples of this in“ Beneath a Venetian Moon”,“ Carnavale”,“ Spirited Sunset”,“ It Is Accomplished; The Ultimate Sacrifice”,“ Boogeyman”, and“ Julianna”. I have a strong passion for conveying the human figure with all of its beauty, curves, edges, muscle, and all its lively distinctions. I find that my true passion is working with the female figure and all of its truly exquisite qualities.
Furthermore, I enjoy the contrast between darkness and light, shade and colour, and therefore I find that my work denounces this self-awareness in my style of which the anatomical figure in dark shades, sustains beneath a background that is most usually in bright colour. I am so used to the traditional construes of either all in shade or solely colour, whereas I feel why not connect the two and contrast both elements to make something