Ruggero Vanni Paintings

Ruggero Vanni's "Into the Light" is a 64 x 52-inch abstract expressionist oil painting. Thick brushstrokes swirl elegantly around the edges, leading your gaze towards a luminous turq...

Ruggero Vanni's "Enchanted Garden" is a 64 x 52-inch abstract expressionist landscape Explosive bursts of colors in shades of purple, orange, and green come to life in a mesmerizing ...

Ruggero Vanni's Ver Vernat (Spring Swirls) is a 62 x 84-inch abstract gestural oil painting. It is an abstract landscape of vigorous brushstrokes and light, with a luminous central focus. The primary colors are purple and blue. There are explicit references to the masters of the Hudson River School, also known as Luminism, and the Romantic paintings of English artist William Turner. The connection to a spring sunset's sky is clearly there, with a feeling of motion, like clouds pushed by the wind, in a swirl of colors and shapes. Vanni works with various brush strokes, from very large to extremely small and detailed. As the viewer approaches the painting, they will be surprised by a continuous change in the texture. Vanni states, "My works allude to natural phenomena, in a raw state, devoid of the limiting constrictions of literal representation. Nature is there as a landscape, a view looking up in the air or plunging underwater. Imagery is kept on the edge of recognition, creating the final association in the mind. Contrasts of matter, color, and light are created to provoke emotional responses. In the large paintings, the atmospheric composition is built by raised brushstrokes shattered and reassembled to reveal an underlying struggle. In the smaller works, paper is cast tumultuously as a counterpoint to its inherent frailness. References to the history of painting are multiple and mixed: Venetian impasto and glazing, Luminist light, Abstract Expressionist texture, and Baroque perspective. It is important to avoid mannerisms, metabolize the suggestions and integrate them with empirical visual stimuli. Dissecting responses to everyday experiences into light, color, and matter. There is no intent to escape reality, but to create a visual experience that communicates directly with our psyche, open to be reinterpreted continuously through our evolution and the changing times." Ruggero Vanni was born in Paris. He studied painting from 1973 to 1978 at the Istituto d'Arte in Rome, Italy, under the guidance of Italian artist Michelangelo Conte...

Ruggero Vanni's Occasus (Sunset or West in Latin) is a 52 x 78.5 inch abstract gestural oil painting. It is an abstract landscape of colors and light, a whirlwind of intense shades o...

Ruggero Vanni is a master in creating artworks where light and color bring into existence compositions that are deeply emotional, spiritual and passionate. The title of this painting...

"Oriens", the latin word for dawn and east, is a morning landscape of colors and light, in a whirlwind of intense shades of reds. The vibrant and intense brush strokes shape an emoti...

In this large canvas oil painting Ruggero Vanni created a fusion of colors and light. The vibrant and intense brush strokes shape an emotional yet calibrated composition. The vivid palette of green and blue is reminiscent of natural phenomena in between air and water. Vanni's long experience as an underwater diver...

In “Aurora II” Ruggero Vanni created a landscape of colors and light, without being afraid to play with intense shades of reds. The vibrant and intense brush strokes shape an emotion...

Ruggero Vanni's Igneo Paludis II (Fiery Marsh in Latin) is a 42 x 23 inch abstract oil painting. The main colors are orange and red. This work, as it is often the case in Vanni's pai...

In “Lucem Internam” (Internal Light in Latin) Ruggero Vanni created a cosmic landscape of colors and light, with a strong accent on the chiaroscuro effect. The vibrant and intense brush strokes shape an emotional yet calibrated composition. Earth, air, fire and water seems to create a swirling battle of elements. The dramatic effect of the bursting light...

Ruggero Vanni's Vortices (Vortex) is a 38 x 60 inch abstract oil painting. The main colors are earth and blue. There is a reference to nature. Earth, air, fire and water seems to cre...

In “Horti Chartae” (Paper Gardens in Latin) Ruggero Vanni created a landscape of colors and light, the two elements that are the constant foundation of his paintings. The tumultuous evidence of the texture is particularly reach because of the technique used. For this work Vanni started by casting several layers of handmade paper one over another to create a wavy and tempestuous surface. The strong colors that he makes by grinding pure pigments underline the folds and curls of the paper creating an overall feeling of energy. The result is almost a geological formation, perhaps underwater (Vanni is an expert underwater diver...