Emanuele Fittipaldi
Emanuele Fittipaldi was born in Salerno in 1994. From an early age he had a sensitive eye for art, very young begins to portray characters belonging to the world of Japanese Manga, a passion that will accompany him until the beginning of high school where he abandoned the design and any form of visual art for 5 years.
Having graduated in computer science, he decided to embark on an artistic career and thus give voice to the artistic spirit that he has hidden for a long time. Find in graphite the suitable medium to express their emotions and their talent and within a few months get the first successes, from a first collective exhibition at the “art and culture center the Sphinx” of Nocera, then at “L’Antica Giffoni Valle Piana, “of which he was the winner of the painting section of the year 2015, up to being selected for an Open Call for hyper-realistic only at an art gallery, the Expart in Bibbiena (Arezzo) where they were present other important artists on the national level of realistic photo drawing and painting.
During the course of the years the artist has begun to move away slowly from this style to which all his initial works belong to finally decide to devote himself exclusively to oil painting as the supreme means of the figurative artist, thus discovering the color and the ‘infinity of the expressive skills of painting, constantly chasing a brushstroke sought, simple, essential and dynamic.
His models of reference around which he turns his oil painting are John Singer Sargent, Repin, Zorn and many others, masters of the representation of the human figure.