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Romanticism is for me something else as people normally defines it: it comes from the soul, it is a way of feeling, that softens everything, gives everything a poetic quality. It is something that happens within us, before being an artistic trend in a certain period of time. Romanticism expresses in my acrylic paintings through round, softly focused shapes. This is the way I interpret some realities, to bring them into my acrylic paintings: no stiffness, no sharp-cornered lines. When there is hardness, it comes from the eyes, from the expression of the portrayed person, while his/her shape remains soft. Romanticism is for me a way to live, it is a filter that gives a certain color and a certain light to what happens, because it is so that we like to see it. In my acrylic paintings a romantic atmosphere surrounds everything I paint and some viewer interprets this as longing for the past. But the emotions that live in us have no time. Have love or tenderness ceased to be "up-to-date"? They are no longer "up-to-date" only for the ones who inhibit and deny them. And so, to reveal some denied realities becomes topical.And these denied realities create inconsistency: we live our soap operas because we need dreams, but we don't realize the games we are taking part in and we fall into a trap of infinite misunderstandings. What I mean for romantic art is to go under the surface, to give a significance that helps us to come out of endless repetitive situations. My romantic paintings point the finger at attitudes, poses, moments that can reveal inconsistency to a careful observer. Agora Gallery (New York) describes my contemporary romanticism in a press release: "Soft light, subtle colors and sumptuous textures work together in the works of Aurora Mazzoldi to create a unique style described by art critic Maurice Taplinger as “contemporary romanticism”. Mazzoldi’s acrylics on canvas are imbued with profound emotion and point to the artist’s own deep relationship to her paintings. Having lived in France, Austria and Italy, Mazzoldi is deeply informed by the art historical traditions that are present in her everyday surroundings and looks to a wide range of influences from the Renaissance Masters of Italy to the Nineteenth Century Romantics. Although her use of dramatic mood is drawn directly from the Romantic tradition, Mazzoldi’s color pallet and soft modeling of form is reminiscent of the Old Masters of the Renaissance. A spiritual thinker who buries herself in each work of art, Mazzoldi is also deeply affected by the philosophical message of the Christian Esoteric teacher Daskalos..."
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