Enrico Donati
Italian / American
1909-2008
Enrico Donati's recent paintings incorporate the best of two worlds. They both reflect modern attitudes and ideas, and resonate with primal memories of a long-gone, geological past.
The remarkable thing is that both aspects of his art art equally true and valid, and that both fuse seamlessly into an utterly enchanting, organic whole...
This is an art that reveals, that induces insights, that moves the viewer to share the artist's sense of awe and wonder at mysteries and secrets about to be unveiled, The painterly pleasures it provides are merely surface enhancements, visual enticements designed to attract the viewer before leading him toward deeper dimensions of understanding and meaning.
from the book, ENRICO DONATI
by Theodore F. Wolff
