Original artwork description:

* **Title:** Salty Embrace
* **Dimensions:** 110 × 110 cm
* **Year:** 2025
* **Technique:** Oil on canvas, palette knife
* **Support:** Canvas
* **Signature:** Bottom right
* **Frame:** Not specified
* **Certificate of Authenticity:** Included

### **SHIPPING**

Because each side exceeds **100 cm**, the canvas will be carefully removed from its stretcher, rolled, and shipped in a **reinforced tube** with specialized art couriers. This method guarantees the impasto surface arrives safe and sound; re-stretching is simple for any professional framer.

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### **ARTIST’S NOTE**

*Salty Embrace* captures that instant when coastline, sea, and sky melt into one luminous breeze. With lavish knife-strokes, **Antonino Puliafico** sculpts a craggy headland and shimmering inlet, then anchors the foreground with crimson coastal flora that seems to sway in the briny air.

A swirl of pastel clouds—rose, mint, dove-grey—spirals across the sky, their motion echoed in the turquoise ripples below. Thick ridges of paint catch and scatter light, making the scene pulse with Mediterranean energy. Puliafico’s modern-impressionist touch turns a familiar seascape into a celebration of color, movement, and the nostalgic scent of salt on skin.

Materials used:

First-rate oil colors of the Florentine brand "DI VOLO" applied with spatula were used for the painting, and the pictorial support is a cottono canvas pre-painted for oil painting with Gesso and Glue.

Tags:

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