Blue

New Paintings by

Barbara Pintauro-Lobosco

Pintauro-Lobosco who showed two years ago at Kramoris has increased the size of her canvases to fill a good sized wall with sky, water, and seashore. In “View Toward North Haven” her treatment of the sky, water, and earth tones has developed becoming much richer in hues and color variations. It gives the feeling of more layers of depth into each of earth, water, and sky. Sky and water merge at her indefinite horizon line pulling the viewer into space creating a sensation of floating, maybe flying, feet off the ground in a sense. The ideal of limitless expanses permeates her new work. Very often the reflections of water to sky and sky to water meld pulling the viewer far into space beyond the earth to a feeling of space and floating. We could call it a meditative place except for the fact that the brush strokes and painterly technique of tempestuous movement found mostly in the sky offers a feeling of high emotion, energy, even superhuman power. The meditative aura versus the feeling of earthiness yet groundlessness is a realized contradiction.

The artist’s principle interest has always been painting land and seascapes. “I am no longer intimidated by the brush; having control of it at the same time allows me to be wildly expressive and free. I like things simplistic but chaotic at the same time and I express them in strong waves of color, “mostly blue”. My ambition is to create a feeling of motion, movement. The result is a natural harmony between subject, color, and texture.”

“I invited Pintauro-Lobosco to show as part of my local artist series because of the energy apparent in her style of movement and the optimism and upbeat exhilaration of her painterly blue skies and water. In viewing her work I automatically breathe deeply and feel refreshed and vibrant. One of the better, healthier, visceral effects a work of art can have on mind, body, and spirit,” says Romany Kramoris.

These paintings are a perfect match for the driftwood gray beach houses with their large expanses of walls and airiness.