patrick pietropoli

 Patrick Pietropoli is a self-taught French painter and sculptor who has been recognized as an established artist in France since the mid 1980s. He is most notable for his extremely detailed, large-scale cityscapes paintings; however, he is also well known for his work on mid-relief sculpture.

Patrick Pietropoli was born in 1953, in Paris, France. He developed his passion for painting from an early age. During his childhood Patrick spent many days at his grandparents’ house drawing for hours at a time and visiting local galleries in Paris with his grandfather.

In 1975 he passed CAPES French national exam in History to become a history professor. Three years later in 1978 Patrick received a master's degree in Ancient History from François Rabelais University in Paris, and taught history in France until 1986.

He began exhibiting in France in 1983 and by 1986, due to his successful career as an artist, he left teaching to become a fulltime painter. Patricks’s early works were influenced by the ‘pittura colta’ movement. He had his first solo exhibition in 1983 at Gallery Verododa in Paris and featured paintings based on sketches of the Annunciation's depiction in Florentine churches in Italy. By the end of 1900s, Patrick became inspired by the Venetian old masters of 18th century. With his meticulous attention to detail, Pietropoli was said to join ‘vedutisti’ in his quest to depict timeless urban landscapes. In his own words he “refused the picturesque nature of street scenes, choosing to portray urban landscapes akin to the teeming, gaily colored world of the paintings of Canaletto and Guardi”.

Jean-Pierre Delarge commented how Pietropoli's "taste for antiquity asserts large paintings" and he "finds the pallet and the Corot format for views of Rome or Venice, empty of any living being, which increases the desired distance from the ocher color blur, this time under a golden sky".

In 1986-89 Patrick Pietropoli created a monumental sculpture, commissioned by the Mutuality of Pas-de-Calais, Paris, France. During 1998-2001 he exhibited small scale mid-relief sculptures at Art Paris and SAGA art fair in Paris, France. In 2000 Musée national de la Marine, Place de la Concorde in Paris acquired two of his paintings for their permanent collection.

Since 2001, Patrick Pietropoli has been exhibiting throughout United States in solo and group exhibitions as well as international art fairs: Art Miami New York, Art Southampton, Art Hamptons, Art Wynwood, Palm Beach Art Fair, Art Chicago. he continues to exhibit in his native France and across Europe being represented by Galerie Felli, Galerie Claudine Legrand, The Cynthia Corbett Gallery, Galerie CGB.

 In the last five years, Patrick Pietropoli has had continued success with six solo shows in the cities of NYC, Miami, Paris, and Atlanta; including, Flower Power held here in April of 2024.