Ruggero Vanni Paintings
Italian
Ruggero Vanni was born in Paris. He studied painting from 1973–78 at the Istituto d’Arte in Rome, Italy, under the guidance of Italian artist Michelangelo Conte, with an emphasis on fresco and artwork conceived as a part of the architectural context. In 1979, he moved to New York to study art at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York, earning his Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1982. While at Cooper Union, the courses of Erwin Rubin, a former student of Josef Albers, was essential in defining Vanni’s interest in colors as the founding elements of his work. Vanni lives and works in New York City, where he has his studio. He also spends the year working in Italy and Greece. His work has been exhibited in Italy and the United States.
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Artist: Ruggero Vanni
Matter and Antimatter - Abstract Expressionist Painting, Pastel Colors, Sky
By Ruggero Vanni
Located in New York, NY
Ruggero Vanni's "Matter and Antimatter" is a 52 x 76-inch abstract expressionist painting. Yellow, blue, and rust colors collide to create a tempestuous sky filled with disintegratio...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Ruggero Vanni Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Into the Light - Expressionist Abstract Painting, Oil on Canvas, Blue Sky
By Ruggero Vanni
Located in New York, NY
Ruggero Vanni's "Into the Light" is a 64 x 52-inch abstract expressionist oil painting. Thick brushstrokes swirl elegantly around the edges, leading your gaze towards a luminous turq...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Ruggero Vanni Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Battle of Colors - Abstract Expressionist Painting, Orange, Turquoise, Purple
By Ruggero Vanni
Located in New York, NY
Ruggero Vanni's "Battle of Colors" is a 52 x 76-inch abstract expressionist landscape with the primary colors being purple, orange, and turquoise. The thick and colorful brushstrokes...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Ruggero Vanni Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Search of Stability - Abstract Expressionist Painting with Muted Colors
By Ruggero Vanni
Located in New York, NY
Ruggero Vanni's "Search of Stability" is a 64 x 52-inch abstract expressionist painting with the primary colors being brown and blue. The boldness of thick brush strokes and the expr...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Ruggero Vanni Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Enchanted Garden - Abstract Expressionist Painting, Green, Purple and Orange
By Ruggero Vanni
Located in New York, NY
Ruggero Vanni's "Enchanted Garden" is a 64 x 52-inch abstract expressionist landscape Explosive bursts of colors in shades of purple, orange, and green come to life in a mesmerizing ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Ruggero Vanni Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Floating in Space - Abstract Expressionist Painting, Purple, Blue, Yellow
By Ruggero Vanni
Located in New York, NY
Ruggero Vanni's "Floating in Space" is a 52 x 76-inch abstract expressionist landscape. The brush strokes are very thick and gestural, with swirls of yellow, purple, and blue colors ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Ruggero Vanni Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Struggle of Color and Matter - Abstract Expressionist Painting, Purple, Yellow
By Ruggero Vanni
Located in New York, NY
Ruggero Vanni's "Struggle of Color and Matter" is a 48.5 x 61.5-inch abstract expressionist landscape with the primary colors being purple, yellow, and green. The brush strokes are v...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Ruggero Vanni Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
From Matter to Energy - Abstract Expressionist Painting with Pastel Warm Colors
By Ruggero Vanni
Located in New York, NY
Ruggero Vanni's "From Matter to Energy" is a 70 x 60-inch abstract expressionist oil painting. It is an abstract landscape with the primary colors being red, yellow, and orange. Ther...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Ruggero Vanni Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Conflicts - Abstract Expressionist Painting with Purple and Orange Colors
By Ruggero Vanni
Located in New York, NY
Ruggero Vanni's "Conflicts" is a 56 x 84-inch abstract expressionist landscape with the primary colors being purple, and orange. The swirls of concentric thick purple and orange brus...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Ruggero Vanni Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Summer Swirls - Red and Orange Abstract Gestural Oil Painting
By Ruggero Vanni
Located in New York, NY
Ruggero Vanni's Summer Swirls is a 64 x 52-inch abstract gestural oil painting. The main colors are red and orange. The artist alternates very gestural and instinctive large brush strokes, with delicate...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Ruggero Vanni Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Birth of Light - Abstract Gestural Oil Painting with Orange and Yellow Colors
By Ruggero Vanni
Located in New York, NY
Ruggero Vanni's Birth of Light is a 60 x 48 inch abstract gestural oil painting. It is an abstract landscape of vigorous brushstrokes and light, with a strong luminous central focus. The main colors are orange, yellow, and rust. There are clear references to the masters of the Hudson River School, also known as Luminism, as well as the Romantic paintings of English artist William Turner.
Vanni states, "My works allude to natural phenomena, in a raw state, devoid of the limiting constrictions of literal representation. Nature is there, as a landscape, a view looking up in the air, or plunging down underwater. Imagery kept on the edge of recognition, so the final association is created in the mind.
Contrasts of matter, color, light, are created to provoke emotional responses. In the large paintings the atmospheric composition is built by raised brushstrokes shattered and reassembled to reveal an underlying struggle. In the smaller works paper is cast tumultuously as a counterpoint to its inherent frailness.
References to the history of painting are multiple and mixed: Venetian impasto and glazing, Luminist light, Abstract Expressionist texture, Baroque perspective.
It is important to avoid mannerism, metabolize the suggestions and integrate them with empirical visual stimuli.
Dissecting responses to everyday experiences into light, color, matter. There is no intent to escape reality, but to create a visual experience that communicates directly with our psyche; open to be reinterpreted continuously through our own evolution and the changing times."
Ruggero Vanni was born in Paris. He studied painting from 1973 to 1978 at the Istituto d’Arte in Rome, Italy, under the guidance of Italian artist Michelangelo Conte...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Ruggero Vanni Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Conflictio Confluens II - Abstract Gestural Oil Painting with Earth Tones
By Ruggero Vanni
Located in New York, NY
Ruggero Vanni's Conflictio Confluens II (Convergence of Conflicts in Latin) is a 46.5 x 52 inch abstract gestural oil painting. It is a landscape of colors and light, with a strong a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Ruggero Vanni Paintings
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Canvas, Oil
Passages in Light III - Abstract Oil Painting Like a Tiepolo Sky
By Ruggero Vanni
Located in New York, NY
Ruggero Vanni's Passages in Light III is a 49 x 35 inch abstract oil painting. The main colors are red, pink and gray. There is a reference to nature, like clouds up in the sky. It ...
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1980s Abstract Ruggero Vanni Paintings
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Canvas, Oil
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Ver Vernat (Spring Swirls) - Abstract Purple Painting with Reference to Nature
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Vanni states, "My works allude to natural phenomena, in a raw state, devoid of the limiting constrictions of literal representation. Nature is there as a landscape, a view looking up in the air or plunging underwater. Imagery is kept on the edge of recognition, creating the final association in the mind.
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Caelum Terramque Fusionem - Fusion of Sky and Earth
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Vortices (Vortex) - Abstract Oil Painting with Earth and Blue Colors
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