Figurative painting, practiced or revisited by many painters, often takes on a different character from that achieved in the past. The colors, for example, in some more contemporary figurative painting, seem to live with more intense tones and increased timbral vivacity. The subjects also explore surfaces imbued mainly with naturalistic scenes, skillfully resolved on the pictorial plane.

This is the example offered by the works of Melania Golino, a sensitive artist with remarkable chromatic abilities, devoted mainly to the liveliness of rural and urban landscapes, as well as to still lifes that she knows how to render with a surprising vitality, especially when red intervenes, often faded with shades of gray-green.

Sometimes the landscape is expressed through luminous depths: an intense blue sky dotted with white clouds, in a visually pleasing contrast. When the artist focuses her attention on architecture, whether urban or rural, she captures the variety of structures and the chromatic expressions characteristic of these two genres, whether spontaneous or predetermined.

Melania Golino truly excels in her still lifes, whose compositions exude a natural splendor, interspersed with green leaves that make them resemble bouquets of flowers. Other equally pleasing compositions include circular baskets accompanied by long-necked bottles and wine decanters: scenes of simple domestic life, in which this extremely sensitive artist manages to capture equally poetic aspects.

A painting, therefore, capable of being authentically itself, made at the same time dense with descriptive meanings thanks to the intelligence and sensitivity of the artist, as is even more evident in his portraits, where it is not just a question of resemblance, but of capturing the density and naturalness of expression.