Francesco "Cesco" Lovascio "Vascio" di Santis
As you likely already understand from the website address, you have viewed photographs of fine visual art of a Provincetown plein air painter. Vascio regularly engages in the now nearly extinct practice of mulling (or grinding) his own oil paints by hand. In an almost unheard of step further, he sometimes reconstitutes the “aging (oxidizing and polymerizing) paints of an active palette onsite, with a glass tool called a “muller,” where unplanned passersbys stop and look, photoing and videoing random moments in a composition’s progression. Often the artist notices them, often he doesn’t…
