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Giancarlo Venturini

"The importance of language and it’s mechanics are often overlooked in everyday thought. In lexical semantics there are patterns of associations showing relation between lexical items like hyponyms and hypernyms. Hypernymy refers to a general term, while hyponymy refers to a more specific term that falls under that general term. The hypernym here is “pointy” and an abstract taxonomy of it is displayed in Mind Map. The terms not only form a point in how they are displayed, but may relate to the notion of being sharp even by their individual forms. An “A” will come to a point by the nature of its typographical form, whereas “dracula” implies the viewer to think of his fangs."

Mind Map, acrylic on unstretched canvas, 5.5'x4.5', 2020

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Giancarlo Venturini

The Gaiety and The Gloom, Oil on Canvas, 3′ x 3′, 2020

This summer I read some of the greatest American novels in an attempt to remember America’s achievements, successes, and instill a sense of pride for our land and its people during these uncertain, doubtful, and trying times. This painting was about re-imagining and personifying a line of text from a historically classic American novel from 1898 “The Turn of the Screw” by Henry James. In the novel the main character proclaims during the night “It was a gaiety in the gloom!” This painting “The Gaiety and The Gloom” was about reinventing that statement visually and representing those literal emotions. Gaiety is seen in a radiantly golden state carrying Gloom from the depths of drowning sadness. This painting also serves to remind the viewer that there are spurts of gaiety to ride on in our seemingly sunken gloom.