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Monday, 6 December 2010
Wednesday, 1 December 2010
"Iconicas" or "Realistic real size painting"
Again about the "Size":
"- Libertus eius cum daret Anti munus gladiatorum,
publicas portum occupavit pictura, ut constat, gladiatorum
ministrorumque omnium veris imaginibus redditis.
Hic multi iam saeculis summus animus in pictura, ..."
"- A freedman (of emperor Nero) was ordered to paint,
on the occasion of a show of gladiators at Antium,
the public porticos with paintings in which were represented
the gladiators in realistic real size portraits.
This of the realistic image is the highest goal in painting, ..."
Pliny the Elder- "Natural History"- book XXXV- chap 34
"- Libertus eius cum daret Anti munus gladiatorum,
publicas portum occupavit pictura, ut constat, gladiatorum
ministrorumque omnium veris imaginibus redditis.
Hic multi iam saeculis summus animus in pictura, ..."
"- A freedman (of emperor Nero) was ordered to paint,
on the occasion of a show of gladiators at Antium,
the public porticos with paintings in which were represented
the gladiators in realistic real size portraits.
This of the realistic image is the highest goal in painting, ..."
Pliny the Elder- "Natural History"- book XXXV- chap 34
Thursday, 18 November 2010
Tuesday, 9 November 2010
Thursday, 30 September 2010
" SIZE DOES MATTER ! "
In my introduction I spoke about the"piece of art" and its reproduction,
of course Walter Benjamin has long developed this theme several decades ago
in his "The work of art in the age of its technologigal reproducibility".
But we are now living e different world .
Until few years ago everybody, while admiring a reproduction, were fully
conscious the original piece of art was elsewhere.
In recent years has raised a new generation of people whose main,
if not unique source of visual information is the Monitor (tv or computer).
I have the suspect (well... I am sure) that the constant loss of connection
between an image reproduced on monitor and its real original size
cancel the importance, the concept itself of original dimension.
In addition, the ease of creating virtual images, or virtual modification
of images of work of art makes that there is no perception of differences
between an image on monitor and its original "body" in real life.
Losing a dimension of reference the work reproduced becomes the work itself
(if you evaluate a picture just for aesthetic and concept there is no difference
between a 200 cm. painting on canvas and its reproduction at 200 pixels).
All my paintings are LIFE-SIZE portrait of animals,
this means that if a Bull full body is 180 cm. high it will be painted in this size
on my canvas.
This was a basic and crucial choice in my art.
So what you are loking at now on your monitor are only the reproductions
of the ideas of my works.
of course Walter Benjamin has long developed this theme several decades ago
in his "The work of art in the age of its technologigal reproducibility".
But we are now living e different world .
Until few years ago everybody, while admiring a reproduction, were fully
conscious the original piece of art was elsewhere.
In recent years has raised a new generation of people whose main,
if not unique source of visual information is the Monitor (tv or computer).
I have the suspect (well... I am sure) that the constant loss of connection
between an image reproduced on monitor and its real original size
cancel the importance, the concept itself of original dimension.
In addition, the ease of creating virtual images, or virtual modification
of images of work of art makes that there is no perception of differences
between an image on monitor and its original "body" in real life.
Losing a dimension of reference the work reproduced becomes the work itself
(if you evaluate a picture just for aesthetic and concept there is no difference
between a 200 cm. painting on canvas and its reproduction at 200 pixels).
All my paintings are LIFE-SIZE portrait of animals,
this means that if a Bull full body is 180 cm. high it will be painted in this size
on my canvas.
This was a basic and crucial choice in my art.
So what you are loking at now on your monitor are only the reproductions
of the ideas of my works.
Tuesday, 14 September 2010
Monday, 6 September 2010
Sunday, 5 September 2010
Friday, 3 September 2010
Thursday, 2 September 2010
Wednesday, 1 September 2010
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