Uploaded October 2017 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
"Nicola Samori paints renaissance-style paintings with a contemporary twist: portions of the images are disfigured. Through melting, scratching, or other forms of destruction Samori degenerates what could otherwise be conceivably a Rembrandt or Caravaggio. I love this contemporary twist on representational art. Rather than the work being simply the world inside the paint– the surface paint itself becomes part of the story as it displays the ruin of the image– melting off the canvas or being smeared. The artist displays the highest technical skill in his oil paintings in the portions of the work that he doesn’t deface."
[surrealismtoday.com/nicola-samori/]
[more at:nicolasamori.com/]
Music: Arvo Pärt - Fratres for strings and percussion
"Nicola Samori paints renaissance-style paintings with a contemporary twist: portions of the images are disfigured. Through melting, scratching, or other forms of destruction Samori degenerates what could otherwise be conceivably a Rembrandt or Caravaggio. I love this contemporary twist on representational art. Rather than the work being simply the world inside the paint– the surface paint itself becomes part of the story as it displays the ruin of the image– melting off the canvas or being smeared. The artist displays the highest technical skill in his oil paintings in the portions of the work that he doesn’t deface."
[surrealismtoday.com/nicola-samori/]
[more at:nicolasamori.com/]
Music: Arvo Pärt - Fratres for strings and percussion
