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George Passantino
George Passantino (1922-2004) of Ridgefield, Connecticut
was an artist, teacher, and author. He studied under Robert Ward
Johnson, Howard Trafton, and Frank J. Reilly. He taught at the Famous
Artists School in Westport, Connecticut, at the Art Students League,
and at the Silvermine College of Art in New Canaan, Connecticut.
Passantino was an author of several books, The
Portrait and Figure Painting Book (1979), which has been published
in seven languages; Figures in Oil (1980); Portraits in Oil (1980);
and Figure Painting Step by Step (2000). He contributed to the book,
Six Artists Paint A Portrait, (1974).
His awards include the Charles Noel Flagg prize
at the Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts. Passantino's work has been
exhibited at the Salmagundi Club, the Wadsworth Athenaeum, the National
Academy, and many shows.
The paintings are the excellent portrayal of the events and scenes
that we see around us. The painters are the best cameras of the
world. They reproduce many different types of pictures. They even
draw imaginary pictures that do not exist in this world. We tend
to use both thinned oil paints and dense oil paints. Masterpieces
can be dyed more than once, but each time it may be different from
the existing paintings.h
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