ASTERIO PASCOLINI (1932-) Listed Artist watercolor & Ink painting signed Italian

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ASTERIO PASCOLINI (1932-) Listed Artist ( Italy, MO, KS) watercolor & Ink painting signed Lower right recto. Unframed. Lovely Italian hillside landscape with cows below and villa on the hill. Shipped with USPS Priority Mail.Asterio Pascolini was born in Italy in 1932. He has studied in Florence and at the Kansas City Art Institute. He started sketching around 1945 as a young teenager, and most of his techniques are self taught. It was in 1958 that Asterio came to the United States to work for Hallmark Cards in Kansas City as an artist. He later became a designer and in time became Hallmark's head artist. He has since retired from Hallmark and now devotes his full time to painting.Over many years Asterio has traveled all over the United States and as well as Europe and especially Italy. In Pascolini's paintings one comes to realize his tremendous concern for human accomplishments, but most of all his tremendous love for nature. To reach such a close relationship, Asterio travels by back-roads through the countryside for countless hours revisiting his favorite subject matter to sketch them from different angles and to present them with their best color and light. Only after the mood and composition seem absolutely suited to the subject does the painting begin.Asterio's most familiar approach is characterized by loose simplicity of read more