Gianni Strino
Born in Naples in 1953, Gianni Strino was fortunately raised
in a time when art was not only respected and encouraged on
a national level, but also a thriving profession.
Once he completed his studies at the Neapolitan Artistic Lyceum,
he enrolled at the Faculty of Architecture, but attracted
by the fascination of the pictorial arts, he gave up studying
and dedicated himself, full-time, to painting. The artist
is considered to be a major representative of the modern Neapolitan
aesthetic movement. His most notable qualities as a figure
painter lie in his ability to penetrate beyond surfaces, and
paint in depths. This honorable characteristic of his work
provides full-bodied and softly curved women in their most
intimate states. A prime example of this is his portrait,
“Woman rising in the Morning.”
It is said without exaggeration that, Gianni Strino paints
human figures with a clear speech, with a realism that is
never flattering, just raw honesty put on canvas.
