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It's in this unit dead nature-landscape-portrait that Russo's paintings succeed to be ancient and modem at the same time, also for the so personal use and materials and techniques selection. Formal balance that on the aesthetic plane found inspection in the meeting between a naiveté but authentic surface (like that chosen by who uses techniques and materials out of officialized canals), a wisdom and an erudition that lay out without thriftiness the poetry of a long and transferred popular humanitatis legacy.
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