Artist Joseph Lorusso
Joseph
Lorusso was born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1966 and received his formal training
at the American Academy of Art. He went on to receive his B.F.A. degree from
the Kansas City Art Institute. Born of Italian descent, Lorusso was exposed to
art at an early age. Through several early trips to Italy, his parents
introduced him to the works of the Italian Masters. Lorusso would look to these
influences throughout his early artistic development and they are still evident
in his work today. Joseph Lorusso creates landscapes and figurative works. In
painting these subjects, Lorusso has concentrated on honing his powers of
observation, especially as it concerns to color, texture, form and composition.
Lorusso’s paintings have been described as warm and dreamlike, places of
restful escape with a sense of spirituality, and share timelessness with the
works of other eras. Discovering the works of the Impressionists, he gravitated
towards the works of Manet and Vuillard. Lorusso searched for similar work of
such emotion and soon became an avid student of painting, seeking out and
immersing himself in the works of various artists. This path would ultimately
lead him to the works of Sargent, Sorolla, Whistler and a whole army of
lesser-known yet equally capable painters. Within this group of artists,
Lorusso would find a sense of identity. In these masterful works, he saw the
power to harness emotion and convey it with power and confidence, yet with
delicacy and tasteful restraint. He also saw in these artists the ability to
express the "essence” of an object with just a few carefully chosen
brushstrokes, creating a visceral and intuitive state of painting.
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