Pincio 1959

This is Nicolas Carone’s painting, Pincio, and it looks like it was made with oil paint on canvas or board. The colors are like a quiet conversation, blues and yellows with a muted, almost sandy background. For me, the painting isn't about one single, confident stroke. It’s about layering, and revising. You can almost feel him thinking, changing his mind, and pushing the paint around. There's this juicy orange square on the left, fighting for attention against a washy blue patch, and those vertical stripes of green and yellow—they’re all so present and alive. The texture looks pretty smooth and the paint looks pretty matte, as though the surface has soaked it up. And those sandy tones – they kind of pull the whole thing together, like a grounding force. It reminds me of Diebenkorn's urban landscapes or even some of the later Guston when he started playing with abstraction. Ultimately, it’s a reminder that art is a dialogue, a push and pull between ideas, colors, and forms, leaving us space to wonder and feel.