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787 - TUNA. The Solitude of the Canned Animals is a series painted with acrylic colors and pastels on canvas. The pictorial language recalls the surrealist cartoon and pop style.

One day, looking at the drawing of the grazing cow on a can of tinned meat, I was surprised by the obvious thought that that box kept the remains of an animal, like a kind of small sarcophagus or a funeral urn.
And I thought that even those little spoils stolen from their world and life, locked up in the darkness of a jar, perhaps on a supermarket shelf, deserved to be celebrated with a little consideration and compassion.


These are small-format works, mounted in gilded vintage frames, in the style of certain collections of old family photos.
This subject is painted on a book page glued to wood, the frame is in gilded wood.

Materials used:

wood, collage, acrylic paints, coloured pencils, coloured chalks

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#food #loneliness #pop surrealism #lowbrow art #tuna #canned food #le moschine #animali scatola #canned animals #tunafish 

787 - TUNA (2025) Acrylic painting
by Paolo Andrea Deandrea

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787 - TUNA. The Solitude of the Canned Animals is a series painted with acrylic colors and pastels on canvas. The pictorial language recalls the surrealist cartoon and pop style.

One day, looking at the drawing of the grazing cow on a can of tinned meat, I was surprised by the obvious thought that that box kept the remains of an animal, like a kind of small sarcophagus or a funeral urn.
And I thought that even those little spoils stolen from their world and life, locked up in the darkness of a jar, perhaps on a supermarket shelf, deserved to be celebrated with a little consideration and compassion.


These are small-format works, mounted in gilded vintage frames, in the style of certain collections of old family photos.
This subject is painted on a book page glued to wood, the frame is in gilded wood.

Materials used:

wood, collage, acrylic paints, coloured pencils, coloured chalks

Tags:
#food #loneliness #pop surrealism #lowbrow art #tuna #canned food #le moschine #animali scatola #canned animals #tunafish 
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I work in publishing and advertising as an illustrator, journalist and cartoonist. From 2015 I started painting a series of subjects in acrylic colors on canvas and wood, "the Mosques",... Read more

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