Sandro Bastioli. Hyperrealistic pastel painting: bunch of grapes illuminated by the sun on a mineral base. Extraordinary transparency of the grapes.
Original Painting

Summer Light

Pastel · 35 x 50 cm

Available
Year
2019
Price
On Request
The Artwork

Summer Light.

The warmth of the sun is trapped in the sweetness of a fruit. A turgid bunch of red grapes is abandoned upon the roughness of a stone step, caressed by a grazing, golden light. The pastel stroke restores the juicy transparency of the grapes, contrasting it with the inert, cold compactness of the mineral base.

The painting captures the fullness of summer and the abundance of the earth, transforming a simple fragment of nature into a triumph of light. The stone, eternal and immutable, serves as an altar to this ephemeral and perfect expression of life, creating a vision of profound serenity.

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The artist's voice

"Light has the power to reveal the soul of the water hidden within a fruit. Upon the bare stone, sweetness finally finds its rest."

Sandro Bastioli

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