Giuseppe Muscio Italian painter was born in Orta Nova, a small town situated in the historical and cultural region of Apulia. ” I was fascinated by the majestic landscape around me and realized that I was born to be an artist and painter. If I close my eyes, I still can smell the perfume of the rows of vines, the fragrance of the olives and the almonds.
I immediately began to reproduce what I could see onto drawing sheets, which my grandfather would give me. Soon, I moved to Milan with my family, leaving behind my roots and my love for the region. I was passionate about painting; I studied the painting’s techniques of the greatest painters of 16th, 17th and 18th centuries. I also experimented with various painting techniques using scientific methods “.
He studied the painting techniques of the greatest painters of the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He also experimented with various painting techniques using scientific methods.
He met great masters such as Giorgio De Chirico, Domenico Cantatore, Renato Guttuso. He attended their studies, where he learned new techniques and saw new ideas thus improving his knowledge and painting skills.
The Poetics of the Cosmos in the Art of Giuseppe Muscio. If there is a concept, contained in a term that more than any other sets agree the scientific thought, the theological and the philosophical one, this is the Cosmos. The ancient understood the term Cosmos as the harmonic order created after the original chaos.
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It’s like saying that from the chaos a spark of the Creator has allowed an anonymous and amorphous mass to have a new image, a definite role in creation and a special reason. All this for every created thing not only for humans. For the Greek philosophers Cosmos was the idea of maximum beauty united between souls, psyche and outer man, rational life.