Jurate McNoriute

Romanticizm in Painting of Italian Painter Margherita Fascione

Guest of the secrets of perfection Margherita Fascione engaged in painting from early childhood, however, in the heyday of her youth she chose studies of Philosophy with specialization in Aesthetics at Istituto Universitario Orientale of Naples. After the institute she felt an implacable hankering for painting. Of course living in so beautiful country like Italy, where so many good art surrounds citizenry, such hankering is easy explicable. From aesthetics to art also only a step. Thus the artist is a self-taught painter with aesthetic background. Seeing at her art works every will agree that Margherita Fascione gifted artist with Romantic attitude (Blake, Delacroix, Friedrich, Géricault, Goya, Philipp Otto Runge, Turner). At the outset her moving spirit was Renoir, Monet; after she began to seek her own ways of artistic expression. She prefers emotion and intuition's role as main, but not rational mind; she believes that the individual, the personal and the subjective are most important in creative process. Brush swing of Fascione is free, noble, honorable, grand, chivalrous, non petty, though sometimes a bit skin-deep. Such attitude was developed in ages during these Italian artists led in Europe and world having pompous commissions of richest persons, states and churches. This phenomenon is rooted up only in art of Italian artists and it is survived till now.This is glamorous. Fascione's favorite themes are such as see waves in storm, see and girl, women beautiful and suffering, landscapes with old castles and park trees. Her sea is truly fascinating. For my eyes Margherita Fascione needs to work a bit on drawing. She is young enough still. Even in contemporary days with domination of taste acquired under the influence of modernism and photography it is not shame to draw like only old masters could. It is possible by her own bootstraps, that is working alone.

Jurate Macnoriute