Pucci's fine art nudes deliver on the promise of his other works, by fulfilling themes and predictions of self-revelation. The results are expressions of unusual personal depth.

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While not the most recognized elements within Pucci's body of work, his nudes often feature a uniquely contemplative, almost prayerful dignity.

 

The watercolor medium adds to the gentle sense of fluidity and expression, while avoiding a stark fascination with sheer musculature and stereotypical physique. 

 

Pucci is comfortable allowing each subject the room and respect of ambiguity and implicit confession of reality by relaying the strong contrasts so consistently evident in his other works.

 

Each subject gazes somewhere other than the artists eye and in that sense we enter into their solitude - Pucci's solitude - as he maintains, along with his subjects a quiet strength and confidence without ever saying more than is needed.

 

These are not the perfected, archetypal forms of classical nudes  - these proclaim a beauty rooted in normalcy, reality and a determined eschewing of perfected human mythologizing. Instead, as in Pucci's other works, we sense his honest, yet optimistic appraisal where reality and beauty share the same space.