Vittorio Sgarbi is her best-known mentor and he has included her in the recent volumes "Porto Franco - The works cleared by Vittorio Sgarbi" and "Artisti '23", a recognition reserved for those from all over the world who manage to take new paths in the 'art.
Her name is Manuela Dore, from Sassari who has been living in Valledoria for some years. A portrait painter of great sensitivity, innovation and creative spirit.
The work in question is "Lennon/McCartney" (charcoal on cardboard), part of the "Swinging London" collection, already exhibited in Valledoria in the personal exhibition "The faces and music of Swinging London".
According to Sgarbi, the execution of a portrait «is a difficult and complex activity. Character, defects or merits must be summarized: the detail that celebrates uniqueness». The Sardinian artist succeeds in this task, demonstrating according to the well-known critic «an unprecedented search for the deepest intimacy of the characters, whose gaze is brought back to life with an absolutely peculiar expressiveness».
The painter bases her works on drawings characterized by the use of pastel and charcoal, with sinuous and detailed lines, motivated by a natural talent. He loves to portray intense and determined, deep and suffering faces. Outlined above all by an almost childlike innocence. Manuela Dore is therefore an artist in full evolution, who will have many things to say. And to depict.
