Contemporary Painting Paolo Baratella 1992 Plato and Aristotle - Plato and Aristotle

Features

Artist:  Paolo Baratella (1935-2023)

Artwork title:  Platone e Aristotele

Age:  Contemporary

Subject:  Portrait/Face

Artistic technique:  Painting

Technical specification:  Mixed Technique

Description : Platone e Aristotele

Mixed media on canvas. Signature, title, date and dedication on the reverse. Paolo Baratella, a recently deceased artist from Ferrara, developed his art by composing vast pictorial cycles inspired by contemporary subjects; we therefore have series of works by him gathered under significant titles. From the mid-1980s and into the 2000s, his scenographic apparatuses became more enriched with cultural, pictorial and literal iconographic references. In particular, Baratella pays greater attention to the iconography of art, philosophy and history. In this work the artist presents the portraits of the two great Greek philosophers (taken from their traditional classical depictions) and shades them in a frame of pink-blue colours. The two individual canvases are placed side by side inside a worked wooden frame, on whose two horizontal crosspieces the words "Timaeus" a work written by Plato, and "Ethics", a recurring theme of Aristotelian philosophy, are engraved.

Product Condition:
Product in good condition, has small signs of wear. We try to present the real state as fully as possible with photos. If some details are not clear from the photos, what is stated in the description applies.

Artwork dimensions (cm):
Height: 80
Width: 101
Depth: 2,5