Mare, chiudere gli occhi, o mare (Sea, Close Your Eyes, Oh Sea), 1983

Testa dell’artista cosmico a Torino (Head of the Cosmic Artist in Turin), 1984-1985

I fiori salutano la luna (Flowers Greeting the Moon), 1984

The analogy with poetry is the most suitable for the pictorial works of Nicola De Maria (Foglianise, 1954), which are the lyrical transposition of the artist's inner universe. More than a figurative representation of the visible world, each painted form is, rather, a personal vision of the otherwise invisible essence of things. In the late 1970s, his ability to upset pictorial conventions, rejecting all academic systems, made him one of the originators of the Transavanguardia movement.

Mare, chiudere gli occhi, o mare (Sea, Close Your Eyes, Oh Sea), is a work on canvas, characterized by an intense blue field, animated by dense red and yellow brush strokes.