Artwing

03/04/2020

In 1985, Burri produced something spectacular for Gibellina, a Sicilian city that was destroyed during a terrible earthquake.
He created “Il Grande Cretto” in the ruined old area of the town, by transforming the ruins in alternated “full” and “empty” cracks of the Cretto.
Through the power of art and creativity, Burri established in the old Gibellina a new hopeful atmosphere bustling with life.

#1985 @ Gibellina Vecchia

02/04/2020

Good morning my dears, in today stories I asked if you ever heard of craquelure and what it means.
Don't worry, I didn't know as well!
It's never too late to take an art pill ✨

▶ The CRAQUELURE on a painting is the network, or pattern, of cracks that develops across the surface as the paint layers age and shrink.

Easel paintings in most types of paint, particularly egg tempera and oil, develop cracks which join up into a complex, extensive network.

Most pictures of any age show craquelure everywhere at the surface. It is also usual for the cracking to extend into the varnish. The craquelure on a picture can be very disfiguring, particularly when cracks in light-coloured paint layers become filled in with dirt.

Detail of:
Alberto Burri
Cretto G 1
1975

01/04/2020

Alberto Burri
Cretto G 1, 1975

Dear art lovers, since we are currently not able to visit museums and galleries, I wanted to share with you one of my favorite artworks from the Galleria Nazionale and tell you some interesting facts about the artist and his technique.

In 1973 Burri began to use again a new material and a new process: “Cretti.”
Cretti are obtained through a mixture of different materials that are then left to dry. This is a technique employed by the artist since his experimental period of using Mold. Burri was extremely attracted to unconventional, humble materials—such as tar, sand, and enamel— and processes like collage, Burri made work that is related to the European Informel movement and the Art Brut of Jean Dubuffet and is seen as a precursor to Arte Povera.

In Cretto G 1, light gradually insinuate into the lattice of the craquelure, generating an almost graphic effect. This work was exhibited for the first time during the retrospective dedicated to Burri in 1976 at the Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna.


@ La Galleria Nazionale

02/03/2020

Piet Mondrian, Composition A, 1923, oil on canvas, Galleria Nazionale, Roma.

Lately I probably focused too much attention on the Galleria Nazionale lately (and there will be more other posts regarding their collection, so be prepared), but don’t blame me for falling in love with modern and contemporary art. Last semester I had two on-site visits at this museum and now I’m completely obsessed with it. Considering that I have been studying primarily the Renaissance period, it is interisting to share with you the knowledge acquired during those past modern courses.

Piet Mondrian was a well-known artist and founder of the Dutch avant-garde De Stilj aka Neolplasticism, which he promoted with his colleague Theo van Doesburg in 1920s. Even though the two artist will then separate and follow different stylistic directions, they initially shared the value and utopian spirit promoted by De Stilj. “The style” was published as a magazine and formed as a movement that focused on the balance between the individual and universal values in time in which machine began to assure ease of living. The new and pure plastic art embraced by Mondrian had two main goals.

The first was “objective” in nature, while the second one was “subjective” existing within the individual’s mind and heart. To express this nonobjective design Mondrian limited his formal vocabulary to the 3 primary colors (red, blue and yellow), 3 primary values (black, white and grey) and 2 primary directions (horizontal and vertical). These pure colors and this system based on locking color planes into a grid of interscting lines allowed him to achieve harmonious compositions. Piet Mondrian created a style of painting that is once personal and universal, inimitable despite its seeming simplicity. As a pioneer and founder of abstract art, Mondrian was the undaunted, completely selfless champion of objectivity.

12/08/2019

di Laura Corchia Finché quella donna del Rijksmuseum nel silenzio dipinto e in raccoglimento, giorno dopo giorno versa il latte dalla brocca nella

08/08/2019

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07/08/2019

Modonna Lochis
Giovanni Bellini
1460-1464
47x34 cm
tempera on panel
Bergamo Accademia Carrara-Italia

07/08/2019

Raphael and contemporaries from Urbino. Don't miss the exhibition that will celebrate the magnificent Italian artist, starting from October!

La Galleria Nazionale delle Marche, nel Palazzo Ducale di Urbino, propone ad ottobre la mostra Raffaello e gli amici di Urbino, in occasione dei 500 anni dalla morte dell’artista.

07/08/2019

The Swing, also known as The Happy Accidents of the Swing
(French: Les Hasards heureux de l'escarpolette, the original title)
is an 18th-century oil painting by Jean-Honoré Fragonard in the Wallace Collection in London.

In The Swing, a young gentleman has convinced an unsuspecting old bishop to swing the young man’s pretty sweetheart higher and higher, while her lover (and the work’s patron), in the lower left corner, stretches out to admire her from a strategic position on the ground. The young lady flirtatiously kicks off her shoe toward the little statue of Cupid. The infant love god holds his finger to his lips. The landscape emulates Watteau’s luxuriant perfumed bower in a park that very much resembles a stage scene for comic opera. The glowing pastel colors and soft light convey, almost by themselves, the theme’s sensuality.

07/08/2019

When Salvador Dalì meets Disney

estino is an animated short film released in 2003 by The Walt Disney Company. Destino is unique in that its production originally began in 1945, 58 years bef...