Log In
Discover
Assets
Jobs
Behance
Pro
Hire Freelancers
Download on the App Store
Get it on Google Play
English
Čeština
Dansk
Deutsch
Español
Français
Italiano
Nederlands
Norsk
Polski
Português
Pусский
Suomi
Svenska
Türkçe
日本語
한국어
中文(简体)
中文(繁體)
About
Blog
TOU
Privacy
Community
Help
Do not sell or share my personal information
Sign Up
Skip to Main Content
Skip to Footer
Behance
Behance
Navigate to behance.net
Explore
Assets
Jobs
Behance
Pro
Hire Freelancers
search
magnifying glass
Sort & filter all:
Projects
Images
People
Assets
People to Hire
Cancel
search
magnifying glass
View your notifications within Behance.
View your notifications within Behance.
Log In
Sign Up
search
magnifying glass
Adobe, Inc.
Adobe, Inc.
Navigate to adobe.com
Follow
Unfollow
Follow
Following
Message
Tools
Plywood
Oil
Tools
Add to Moodboard
Save
Share & Embed This Project
Share
Appreciate
Appreciate
Follow
Following
Unfollow
Follow
Unfollow
Raffaella Calcagnini - The blue-sky artist
Raffaella Calcagnini
•
Follow
Following
Unfollow
LOOKING FOR THE INTERNAL ARMONY
(
oil on plywood, cm 100 x 70
) - I found myself among the thoughts, the uncertainties of life that surrounded my soul as the canvases mirror it. Each canvas represented a feeling, floating along with the other ones 'looking for internal harmony', for an order, for a proper place, in search of awareness and truth
GASH IN THE CLOUD
(
oil on plywood, cm 90 x 30
) - My soul had been restless for a longtime, full of fears, questions, frustrations. I looked up to the sky with my heart full of resentment and bitter desires. I entered the dark mantle of that day and all of a sudden I saw a 'Gash in the cloud', a wound, a laceration, the same that was living deep in my spirit and in my soul
SKY BLUE APOCALYPSE
(
oil on plywood, cm 110 x 50
) - It was inevitable. I felt completely lost. I turned and I looked at my past, my choices, my decisions, my life and all I saw was a life suspended in time. Suddenly I felt a sharp pain, my eyes filled with bitter tears. I turned and I felt like I was falling into an abyss, a 'Sky Blue Apocalypse', a tumble towards the unknown
BEYOND MYSELF
(
oil on plywood, cm 50 x 110 (private owner
) -
The only thing I could do, was heading for the path inside of me. I ventured into my unknown deepest places, and I stopped there. I sat down and under the emotions tree 'Beyond myself', I started to pay attention: a gentle breeze brought me voices, memories, illusions and each of them slowly wove a strong metallic mesh in which I completely felt trapped. I was immediately aware that my entire life was called into question: every trip entails that the day meets the night and the dark the light, exactly as it happens in everyone’s life. The only choice is FREEDOM, the essence of the painting
FLEXIBLE ART OF LIVING
(
oil on plywood, cm 100 x 70
) - After so much wandering into my subconscious, I felt suddenly stronger. I looked into myself and I felt more aware. While being surrounded by a multitude of unanswered questions and by bitterness that I still feel, I didn’t allow the events to overcome my soul and I realized the 'flexible art of living', where everything was back in a new order, still in motion
BIG BANG
(
oil on plywood, cm 50 x 110
) - I run into the lights of a new dawn, among the greatness of the world inside me, reaching for what I still don’t know, I run, going through the melancholy, the bitterness, the regret, I run towards the unknown. I hear a thunderous roar inside me, an internal 'Big Bang' hits me and turns everything upside down. What is old has now been shattered, and a new light opens the door to the future
PATHS
(
oil on plywood, cm 80 x 130
) - I looked out of the window; during the night the weather had changed and in a few hours the wind blew away all the clouds to the west, while dark and threatening clouds still appeared behind the house. I observed the sky and I thought how much it nourishes me, protects me, and listens to me. I greedily walked through the infinite shades, I played with the ever changing movement of white clouds and I saw some of them intersecting with some others, creating twines similar to paths, multiple crossroads leading in many different directions. I thought about how many times in my life I took some unknown paths and ignoring others, I took some, without even seeing them. I thought to where these paths would have brought me if I had taken them. It depends on the choice of an instant of taking or leaving them
COSMOGONY
(
oil on plywood, cm 70 x 90
). The sky is the infinite, it’s a common roof for everyone, but it’s comfort to me, I feel it like home. I feel as if I am at home underneath it, allowing me to have a conversation with those people who are no longer with us. I am able to glide, turn, land on the white clouds and blue colors, and let myself be swallowed by a renewal wind, brightness, freshness, in a 'Cosmogony' of emotions
IVORY MOON
(
oil on plywood, cm 90 x 150
). The rain has washed away the shadows, the waltz of the clouds has opened the curtain to a bright and velvety night, giving access to hopes and dreams. A gentle breeze ruffles the clouds and the thoughts, cleans the dressed up sky, that reveals its biggest star; an 'Ivory Moon' appears on the stage of this wonderful place and, without doing anything, attracts all the eyes and all the admiration on her. Tears of Emotion get caught on her lashes and the heart embraces her willowy caress
DESIRE OF LIGHTNESS
(
oil on plywood, cm 40 x 70
). Before starting to paint, I went into the garden. The smell of the grass, the rustle of its leaves and the sun insinuating through the dancing fronds of the olive tree, let the tired shadows slide on the green earth. Lazy clouds wandered in the blue sky, and the tinkling of suspended crystals composed a magical music that caressed my soul. I was observing the little figure of my son who was sitting under the shadow enjoying himself blowing bubbles. His big amazed eyes were following the bubbles in the air. I looked at him with great affection and love and I felt a great 'Desire of lightness'. All of a sudden I didn’t feel old, neither far from him, but being a part of that spectacle of sensations. I was full of sweetness, disenchantment and gratitude, I let myself go, and I felt a sensation of a rebirth with a renewed breathing
Join Behance
Sign up
or
Sign in
to view personalized recommendations, follow creatives, and more.
Sign Up With Email
Sign Up
or
Join Behance
Sign up
or
Sign in
to view personalized recommendations, follow creatives, and more.
Sign Up With Email
Sign Up
or
Raffaella Calcagnini - The blue-sky artist
4
97
2
Published:
December 26th 2015
Owner
Raffaella Calcagnini
Fano, Italy
Follow
Following
Unfollow
Message
Raffaella Calcagnini - The blue-sky artist
My art, my paintings, are born from the instinctive effort of the soul in which the intense language of heaven becomes the eternal divine languag
Read More
4
97
2
Published:
December 26th 2015
Tools
Plywood
Oil
Creative Fields
Painting
blue
SKY
clouds
soul
Paintings
heart
desires
spirit
God
life
light
faith
unknown
infinite
repose
Copyright Info
Attribution, Non-commercial, No Derivatives
Read More
Report