Fine Art Tuesday

 

Pino, born in Italy in 1939 and died in 2010.

His paintings are mostly set on the soothing and sunny Mediterranean Beaches where he grew up.

In 1990, Mrs ERJ, our first child (three months old) and I went to Bethany Beach, Delaware to "do the beach".

What I found notable about Bethany Beach was that mothers and daughters and granddaughters promenaded on the boardwalk together. They seemed to be at perfect ease with each other and I sensed no generational tension.

Such is the magic of the beach.

I get the same sense from Pino's paintings.

The other thing that attracts me to Pino's paintings is that they are not "fussy". For example, can any one detail be added to the top image to make the woman more attractive? What man (with a pulse) would not be happy to wrap his arms around a woman like her? She is not naked. Her dress is not deliberately seductive or trashy. Yet she is imminently desirable because everything about her personifies "woman".