Thinking about Pino

Here are some more images of Pino’s work. 

A lot of his work surrounds boudoir scenes with sensuous women but there are also some tender moments between women and children as illustrated in my previous post.

His standing, single figures are powerful and ennobling. His soft brushstrokes infer a reverence for the subject and yet the faces lack emotion. 

I find his work interesting as he keeps the full figure and doesn’t seem to be fetishizing the female body by segmentation, and yet there isn’t really a strong personality to the women.  He treats their figures with respect but then doesn’t provide them with a soul.  Is he just painting beautiful objects or are these real women and he is missing the point of portraits?  

The first image “Angel from Above” probably has the most personality with a simple smile and the child in her arms. I think this might be my favorite so far.  Instead of having down-cast eyes like some of Pino’s women, she looks strait out at the viewer with the child in her arms, challenging our gaze.

I keep going back and forth thinking Pino’s work is heavily theoretical or simply pretty pictures. In our Post-Structuralist society, could it be both?

I’ve been having lots of fun thinking about art J     

 

Allison Dawson

Gallery Manager/ Art Consultant

 

Repartee Gallery at Fort Union

1110 East Fort Union Boulevard

Midvale, UT  84047

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