Poet and painter Anthony Maulucci has lived year-round in
San Miguel de Allende, Mexico since 2008, having moved here from the US after spending a year in
Zacatecas. He has had two solo shows since coming to San Miguel and was a
member of Izamal Gallery for a while. “San
Miguel is an exhilarating place to live and be an artist,” Maulucci says, “It
electrifies the creative soul.” Maulucci is married to Mexican book designer
Patricia Garcia Arreola.
His preferred medium is oil on canvas as well as ink,
pencil, and paper. He holds a master’s degree from Wesleyan University in
Connecticut and was a community college professor of literature and theater for
many years before early retirement allowed him to devote himself full-time to
his first love, the visual arts. During the years he was earning a living as a
writer and teacher he never stopped sketching and looking at art in the museums
of the various cities where he lived and traveled. Prior to becoming an
educator, he worked as an arts journalist, stage manager for a theater company,
and bookstore clerk. He grew up in Connecticut and has lived in Boston,
Montreal, Toronto, New Haven, and New York City.
His painting style is a blending of modern expressionism
with classical Italian and Spanish art, and an eclectic mix of modern masters — Gauguin, Matisse, Modigliani,
Renoir, El Greco, Titian, Caravaggio, Dali, Picasso, De Chirico, Klimt, Munch,
and Rossetti. Also, the contemporary cinema has greatly influenced his way of
seeing the world. “No doubt my visual sense has been shaped as much by the
movies as it has by studying classical works of art,” Maulucci says. “My eye
has been trained by motion picture images. My imagination — both visual and
literary — has been
conditioned in part by the cinema in general and by directors such as Fellini,
Bergman and Godard in particular.”
For the last five years the focus of his work has been his
paintings of women. “I consider myself a painter of beauty,” Maulucci says,
“and there is nothing more beautiful than the female figure.” To feature this
aspect of his work and make it more accessible, he set up an online gallery
called Les Femmes Gallery (www.lesfemmesgallery.com).
In addition to painting, Maulucci writes poetry, fiction and
drama. He has published 15 books and is the author of 6 full-length plays as
well as many short works for the stage. His books are available from Amazon and
two of them are currently for sale at La Tienda in La Biblioteca on Insurgentes. For more
information about his work, please visit www.anthonymaulucci.com.
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