Biography
Niece and daughter of art, painter and poet. Born in Contrada (AV) October 16, 1957, he graduated in Languages.
Academic honorary for artistic merit and academic Chevalier des Arts.
The figurative dominates most of the paintings, the technique used is oil on canvas and frescoes, tempera or water-oil color.
Important her oil paintings on velvet. At the beginning her works were connected to the Mannerist current, then the pictorial evolution pushed her to the current neo-realistic
and for the frescoes, to the art nouveau.
She has received numerous awards and entries in art books
Italian and foreign.
Intense and significant, the pictorial images of Maria Pennino are deeply substantiated feelings and emotions, long settled in her sensitive soul of an artist in a fruitful dialectic relate to reality.
From nature, from daily events from the variety of the essential reasons, she draws inspirational cues that successfully joins and originality, the intuitions of the imagination, in a lyrical transfiguration of forms and concepts.
Painter by spontaneous vocation, is particularly nonchalant, in the highlighting of the contents on the floor introspective, extrapolating human and spiritual values of considerable thickness, through the aesthetic beauty of the filter, communicating immediately with the observer (V.Cracas)
In her style, Maria Pennino, issue figural and fantastic elements with a realistic tone, however, imbued with symbolic accents, creating a refined and efficient synthesis of significant forms, colors, carefully measured light and shadow, as well as give us the measure of his considerable technical skills, are suggestive referents of its harmonic expression, always supported by a poetic inspiration. (V.Cracas)
"In the eyes of her characters are read intense emotions, in the transparency of the clothes or curtains, or water, there is the link with the afterlife and is expressed as the transience of life." ( Ed. The Elite)
The painting of Maria Pennino is imbued with tenderness, the features are delicate and create a softness of forms went weak subject.
Even in the crucified Christ, which should bring up the idea of the pain, the face is suffused with dolcezza.quasi transfigured in ecstasy far from earthly affairs.
The eye and mouth seem to convey a message of deep love, almost satisfaction with the mission accomplished, and the drops appear like gems of a precious crown.
These characteristics of course, are to a greater extent in the other painting, female figure, which balances the majesty of the physical structure with the sweet melancholy of the face.
The brushwork is light as if to emphasize the moment of enchantment that the subject lives, suspended reverie almost story-telling, as suggested by the bear caressed by a hand softly modeled.
The cone of light of the lampshade on the bedside table and the plant can give balance to the representation of the whole.
Maria Pennino shows that it has achieved full pictorial mastery of the human figure, which manages to make alive and throbbing.(R. Biancalani)
Her works are in private and national collections.
"Her painting is 'clean and uniform.In the eyes and expressions of the eyes of his characters there all life within. "
