Close Window

Citarella

"Dance always motivated painters like Toulouse Lautrec and Renoir as well as the great masters. I paint as a testimony of my love for ballet. Painting repeats the fundamentals of art – grace and harmony materialized in a body. Dance frees us from our own terrestrial weight, resulting in moments of aesthetic fascination whose main characteristic is lightness.

"My admiration for art had its beginnings with my maternal grandmother. She was a well-known opera singer. With her I learned how to paint in watercolors and she created a desire in me to enter the universe of the fine arts.

"I never did study art. I became a dentist as, at that time, my father did not consider painting an activity for a woman. But after I graduated and married, I began to rescue those old passions – painting and piano – ballet remains only in my childhood memories. I joined the Brazilian Society of Fine Arts, where studied at night after work in my dental office. Immediately after that, I studied at the Lage Park School of Visual Arts. Always divided between family, work and painting, I gradually began to participate in competitions and art exhibits where I received many, many honorable mentions and gold, silver and bronze medals. My most acclaimed themes are ballerinas, flowers, still lifes and landscapes.

"To exhibit my work with Novica is like a dream. I know it is being seen by countless people all over the world, and that is everything an artist could hope for."