Octopus (2020) Original Oil Painting by Federico Cortese

The fantastic world of animals. When I was a kid I went crazy for these small encyclopedias for children, where all the animal species were cataloged, and were represented with drawings rather than with images. Those drawings, although very detailed, left much to the imagination. It was as if some white space at the edges of the image were put there on purpose, to allow the viewer to complete, with the imagination, the work of describing that animal. Perhaps it is from this childhood passion that comes to me a certain obsession for animals, and a vice that leads me, starting from a detail or from a certain peculiarity, to exaggerate, to overstate the decorations and the colors, to allow the polyps to emit colored and psychedelic inks.

Summary of features:

Medium & materials: oil on thick paper
Finishing: protective varnish (transparent mastic paint)
Location and year created: Turin, Italy - 2020
Certificate of Authenticity: included, with signature of the artist on photograph
Signed: on the front, bottom center
Surface of the paper: smooth

Materials used:

oil

Details:

• Oil painting on Paper
• One of a kind artwork
• Size: 24 x 50 x 0.1cm (unframed)
• Signed on the front
• Style: Surrealistic
• Subject: Animals and birds