. . . The American essayist Clement Greenberg mentions in his "Avant-Garde and Kitsch" essay published in 1939 that the avant-garde artist, the "true" artist, tries to "imitate God by creating something valid solely on its own terms, in the way nature itself is valid, in the way a landscape - not its picture - is aesthetically valid; something given, increate, independent of meanings, similars or originals." In other words, the highest form of art should be the one that defines itself without the need for outside elements. In effect, this is a quality observed in the works of Osvaldo Mariscotti. Every one of his works is an enigma, but an enigma with its corresponding answer. Everything needed to find that answer, which may be in the form of color or shape, is provided in the work.
Mariscotti believes art should be beautiful and be able to engage the viewer. Mariscotti's work is appealing to the public for it speaks to the universal common bond among humanity, life. The artist creates a tale, a story on the canvas where the spectator is the main character. He creates a world which is not only real, but "true" to the spectator that observes his work. Every world is different, every world is unique for it relies on the specific experiences and feelings being transferred to it from the corresponding spectator. Thus, the work engages in the specific and personal level, as well as in the universal and general one.
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