Piano created Youthful Pleasures to show us the celebration now as love, specifically the love between mother and child together With the warmth and closeness that brings. If he would have accomplished nothing else, believe his best wish would be for us to understand the emotion of love. His purpose for creating these pieces of art would not have been far from this, he has told us “My paintings elicit feelings of warmth” (Key West Galleries), which one can only help hut feel after they understand the love and nostalgia he so accurately portrays in his paintings.
Piano is able to tell us a romantic’s point of view, without ever saying a word. It has been said that Piano followed the work to and was heavily influenced by the groups know as Pre-Reappraises and Machiavelli (J Watson). Both these groups believed that art should not be bound to conventional art forms or the public norm, which artists should be allowed to depict their feelings and ideas without judgment of the theme but judgment on their ability. If Piano had adopted these principles the implications and consequences could have led him to scrutiny and eventually separation from the art world for not conforming to the practiced standard.
Having been eased primarily with his mother, aunts and cousins while growing up, Pianos style comes from the societal condition that causes all the men from his family to be gone working and providing for the family. He was also born during the war that ravaged Europe leaving Piano to be cared for by his extended relatives, as the men were transported away to fight. This leads all the women in his family to fill the maternal role, often times leaving him to feel isolated because of the gender difference between them.
You can see this separation in the position Of the boy in the background, also throughout his other paintings whenever a woman is evicted she always holds or seems closest to the younger girl while the boy is in the shadows. My initial interpretation of this fantastic painting had me thinking of the realism captured in the face of the woman as well as the attitudes of the children so precisely detailed. After further study and research I am now able to see the tenderness felt between the subjects, how Piano was loved as a child with his own special explanation of that feeling.
His artistic ability is undeniable, his story worth repeating and his point well made. Many have admired his ability to future in great detail the emotions his subjects were expressing, Many others have celebrated his work, some saying he was the biggest figurative artist to our time. His talents have been noted on the ability to so brightly capture the emotion and realism of a person while weaving it perfectly into the softness of the landscape and surroundings His technique was as impressive as his projection and interpretation of beauty.
The styling used between foreground and subject are a distinct sign of work from Piano, he would use a broad sweeping stroke to lay out the surroundings then proceed with fine strokes and clear recession for the subject. I could not agree more with Piano and his ideas Of love and warmth. If you look closely at more of his favor you can see the true talent and skills used by him, sometimes leading me to think he cared more his abilities than he did the actual message of the painting.
His core values of integrity and perfection drove him to constantly improve his techniques, always striving to better himself. Can reflect on these values because I know that we are never done learning or improving ourselves, that no matter what we can always be better. Piano Deadens artwork already holds great value around the world, He is n artist lucky enough to reap the rewards and praise for his works during his lifetime and leave us with a legacy.
