rom Europe and Asia to the United States, his work has been seen and loved throughout the world. He has successfully enjoyed over fifty-five personal exhibits and countless communal and private showings. Nearly every celebrated critic and renowned art historian rave his praises. Pier Carlo Santini, perhaps the most prominent of these, has been quoted as saying [in particular reference to White Sand Beach]: “There is a total stillness, a summer calmness as if time has stood still and night will never fall, even when the sky is awash with red or purple hues.”

Andrea Razzauti’s paintings are a synthesis of element and elegance. He translates the sensory amalgams of the imagination into an inventive presence of artistry - his deep sense of ambience and space and essence are momentarily crystallized… wherein the contained-image is profoundly transformed into a sentient element of its own reality/truth. The resultant expansive view allows [and invites] us to witness these translations for ourselves and, if only for an instant, we are directly guided to an impact point of sorts. Although this is always a nameless point, we experience an immediate intuitive understanding of something intensely innate and, though having escaped beyond the very pattern of some loose-rigidity which has captured it, the rendition remains indefinable and infinite.

Those who speak don’t know… those who know don’t speak. Andrea shows and doesn’t tell. We ultimately find ourselves considering those things which ring of rightness and timeless existence… we seem to recognize the universal similarities in ourselves and our own individual transience, and for the briefest of moments, we can observe without obstruction the enduring patterns in the ever-changing stream of nature. In the doing, feel subdued and humbled and yet jubilant to be in this remarkable moment of “now-ness”… that is to say: art –

Each Razzauti is a synopsis of the world around us, which in turn tenders a new life - there is mystery in the commonplace – introspection and perspective in a fused-blending of design and free-expression – and a key to seeing the [previously] unknown in a fresh creative light –

Lavender Field, Poppy Field, and White Sand Beach are signature works which so beautifully exemplify common pathways with fluency and grace… though we mingle in the minutia of life and nature we can couple with our ambiguities, without thought or purpose, and connect to the unity of all things tranquil, as we each envision and explore our own expanding sense of taste for aesthetic agreement in all the universe –

* the soft fragrance
thru a field of lavender…
in a painting

*-brett brady
[2007]