Pucci's formidable skills in composition, use of form, color and texture shine strongly in his still life works.

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With the deep textures reminiscent of Cézanne and the deep colors of Manet's Bundle of Asparagus or The Lemon, Pucci finds a profundity in the mundane as he fuses beauty and certainty to suggestions of chaos, decay and randomness.

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In a careful freezing of time, Pucci's realism is mindful of accuracy but like so many of the greats, he consistently leads the path of a viewer's eye along his images as if suggesting something deeper and less certain about the moment, than first assumed. 

 

Mirroring his prolific cityscapes, where people are featured but not deeply personal, Pucci's still life work never completely escapes a personal, self-relevatory subtext.

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He maintains a strong contrast between abundance and the persistence of decay; and infuses a pendulum-like quality of loneliness and togetherness in each work. This is indicative of an artist living in Brooklyn, where the work demands solitude and yet, as a teacher and highly-sought commercial artist, Pucci was deeply embedded in community.

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The viewer will often sense a clear yearning for wholeness in Pucci's still life work, which taps into the basic human need for beauty as the pathway there. He offers hope alongside frailty, with the gentle yet consistent and firm suggestion that life is truly most beautiful when we acknowledge its imperfections.

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