Abstract Expressionism

Abstract Expressionismis an original artwork realized by Giorgio Lo Fermoin 2017. Oil on canvas. Perfect conditions.

Interesting and enigmatic artwork representing a blue shape on a bright red background. The elliptical form in the centre of the simplified composition is in contrast with the background; the artist uses primary colors and basical shapes. The title of the artwork recalls and pays homage to an important art movement of the second half of the XX century: Abstract Expressionism. The term was applied to new forms of abstract art developed by American painters, such as Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Willem de Kooning, and Robert Motherwell in the 1940s and 1950s. Lo Fermo's artwork is characterised by gestural brushstrokes, and by absolute spontaneity.

Giorgio Lo Fermois an Italian painter and sculptor. He was born in Sicily in 1947, but has lived and worked in Rome since the mid-1960s. He studied at the School of Arts and Crafts of San Giacomo and then Sociology of Art at the University of Rome. His innovative style took form in the 70s, in the stimulating atmosphere of the new Rome, re-born through the creative vitality of Fellini and Rossellini. Lo Fermo’s style is a studied symbolic elaboration of varying rhythms, in which objectivity and logic give way to a liberal expression of the dynamic content. His concept is reanimated in color and in aesthetics, which take kinetic paths toward both reality and fantasy, connecting themselves intimately with experience and interior tension. During his career, Giorgio Lo Fermo has participated in international exhibitions in New York (1992), Stockholm (1992), Budapest (1992/1993), Hong Kong (1994) and in the International Art Competition of New York in 1995. He won several important recognitions and awards: the Italian Art Leader Award ’92, the Art and World Prize of Hong Kong in 1994; he was also nominated member of the Accademia Internazionale Greci/Marino. The major galleries in Rome, such as A. Consorti, Gradiva, Babuino and Yanika, exhibit his canvases, and his work is held in private collections both in Europe and in America.