Daniel Schinasi belongs to a movement he created himself : the neofuturism. Consequently, it may be useful to explain what was the futurism to understand his paint. Born at the beginning of the 20th century, this movement wanted to break with a backward-looking conception of art and to glorify a certain form of modernity. It's the 11th February of 1910 that came out the Manifest of futurism painters partly written by Marinetti. The futurist painters have touch on all the themes of social life and they have chosen to put accent on movement and speed.

But, if this dynamism notion is commune to futurism and neofuturism, their vision of the world is quite different. So, for the first one, the modernism is established in intransigent dogma, the quick machine and transport engines are considered as myth, though the second one had rather representing a world where man stay upright and may become wise. Man who is moving frenetically in this consummation society is following a dangerous slope. Daniel Schinasi refuse to fall in this trap of progress distinctive to futurism. He claims the influence of Italian Renaissance, almost about composition, withdrawing thus, radically from strict futurism who was denouncing sterility of past civilization.

The artist is useful : the art has an ideological and educative function. Thus, the drama and the humans catastrophes have to be represented to assure a memory duty, you have to not to contents yourself of subjects without historical and ideological reach. And though, when the painter is using the Jewish history, the biblical themes are used only to generalize History of Man.

Daniel Schinasi, with his long experience, can henceforth ask himself, what young artiste cannot even imagine : did he realize his ideal ? In fact, he would tell you that only few paintings had gave him a true satisfaction, as a distraught of perfection artist. He would also tell you that all what it existed until know was only preparation for all what will be and only his maturity will allowed him to success, approaching his philosophy translate in painting.

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