Creative Quickie: Lithium by Rosaria Battiloro

Lithium by Rosaria Battiloro

Lithium by Rosaria Battiloro

Lithium is an expressive watercolour painting by Italian artist Rosaria Battiloro that evokes pure, raw emotion though using subtle lines and minimal paint dabs. The painting is named after either the classic mood stabilizer used to treat bi-polar disorder, or Nirvana ‘s 1991 track entitled “Lithium.”

Either would be suitable as Lithium—the drug often leaves those who take it with a sense of emptiness, causing a desire to stop the medication and feel again. With that in mind, the angle of choice and the deliberate drippings work beautifully together to tell somber story.

Rosaria is a graduate of the Fine Arts College in Naples, Italy where she studied Pop Art and the Neo-Pop Movement. See more of her work here .

Like this?

About the author  ⁄ theComplex

Editor-in-Chief at Sinuous Magazine, designer, and founder of NYC-based boutique design firm theComplex Media & Design. I've been designing for 13 years, writing on the internet for about the same, and I appear on radio and podcasts under the name "Lanae Mc'Levans." Photographer and overall geek who is passionate about art, music, politics, technology, fashion, and women's issues. A serial day-dreamer. Foul-mouthed. Opinionated.

  • Barry Wald

    I like this work.  It goes from form to formless.  I like the strong contrasts  and the various textures, transparency and opaque.  I wonder what she used to get the dark black.  Watercolor is so transparent and yet she has this opaque black.
    the drippings are also lines that suggest a spider’s web…

  • Pingback: Creative Quickie: Lithium by Rosaria Battiloro | Design News

  • http://www.bybe.net/bournemouth-photography.html Photography Bournemouth

    That art is so good, if only I was as half as good! Thanks for sharing.