Nicola Masuottolo | Contemporary Artist: Artworks & Biography

Originally from the Bay of Naples, Nicola received a box of oil paints for his tenth birthday. He then began to experiment with shapes and colors in his spare time, while also learning computer science. This passion will however lead him, in 1996, to take the decision to stop his activity as a programmer to devote himself only to graphic and pictorial creation. Nicola began his apprenticeship with a friend who was a marine painter. Appreciating the gesture as much as the smell that emanates from the marriage of the material with the diluents, Nicola worked seriously to perfect his technique and to develop his pictorial style, regularly submitting his production to the demanding gaze of the public. At the end of the 80s, the artist fortuitously discovered the landscapes of the American painter Edward Hopper (1882-1967), and tried, in turn, to immortalize the beauties of his native region. Thirty years later, his desire pushed him to try to reproduce the human figure. Through hard work - and supported in his approach by the many encouragements published on social networks - he perseveres in this way and gains confidence, experimenting with various techniques such as collage and stencil to support the message he wishes to carry.Drawing his inspiration from his daily life, his readings, current events, Nicola tries to offer the viewer an honest and accomplished painting that does not necessarily have the vocation to represent beauty, but could be read more as an attempt to understand the problems of our world.