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AA Rucci
Brooklyn-based artist AA Rucci's round paintings reference the art historical tradition of Tondos, or round painted panels that were popular, though extremely difficult to realize, in the Italian Renaissance. Rucci's panels, however, are strikingly modern, with brightly-colored grounds of simulated wood grain and vivid technicolor figures. The small scale of the figures relative to the expanse of circular ground behind them creates an intimate, activated viewing experience - as one moves closer to the paintings' surfaces outside stimuli and distractions are all but eliminated. And while looking closely at the finely detailed figures it becomes possible to notice, in one's periphery, subtle shifts and undulations within the shades and textures of the ground.
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Brooklyn-based artist AA Rucci's round paintings reference the art historical tradition of Tondos, or round painted panels that were popular, though extremely difficult to realize, in the Italian Renaissance. Rucci's panels, however, are strikingly modern, with brightly-colored grounds of simulated wood grain and vivid technicolor figures. The small scale of the figures relative to the expanse of circular ground behind them creates an intimate, activated viewing experience - as one moves closer to the paintings' surfaces outside stimuli and distractions are all but eliminated. And while looking closely at the finely detailed figures it becomes possible to notice, in one's periphery, subtle shifts and undulations within the shades and textures of the ground.
