Motherly Love by Antonino Gambino
I love the flowers, I love the plants I love the trees I love the nature I love the sunsets I love the dawn I love the stars I love the sun I love the moon I love the men I love his/her children I love. the Servant. But, only for one of these loves I would die, my child. My blood’s blood Life of my life Animates of my soul I love my child.
Title of work Motherly Love
Size of work ( either cm or inches) 60 X 50 cm
Expressionism and realism
Technique, Medium & material used wooden tarsia
Date work was completed (only submit work of the current year) September 2012
Excellent.
I timeless beauty and quality with a vibrant contrast of colors are depicted in this work of colored wood inlay. Your work shows your love for this medium as this is such a painstaking exacting craft turned into a fine art. The image requires no explanation but the viewers should also appreciate the weeks of effort in such exacting measure required to produce a piece such as this intriguing expression of figures and objects complimented by an abstracted background of varying shapes and hues.
Antonio, Your painting got my attention for the same reason; a mother holding a child with happy colors in the background and the innocent look. The title of your painting and the subject you chose are very suitable to the exhibition’s theme, yet when your title is ”Motherly love” makes the mother and the child the main objects/elements in the painting but you’ve only gave them the small space in the artwork and all other occupied the rest. Try to focus on your main subject/title to convey your message/title stronger. Thank you for participating I like the simplicity of your style and best wishes.
Antonino, I am in complete awe of the skill that you have to work with wooden inlay! By going into a finer detail of wood inlay of the mother and child, you bring the viewer’s focus to this point and emphasize the timelessness of this form of Love! Thank you so much for your submission.