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Category: People and traditions – EN

  • Miss. Dior

    After his first years as an illustrator and then as a Designer at Maison Piguet, in 1946 Christian Dior and Marcel Boussac founded the fashion house in Paris on Avenue Montaigne. The following year he presented his first Spring-Summer collection to the public. Luisa and I visited La Galerie Dior this year (2022) in December, where this dress is exhibited, from which a photo was taken at the time that I interpreted. In the original photo the dress is completely black.

    “Uniformity is the mother of boredom.” Christian Dior

    TITLE:   

    Miss. Dior

    SUPPORT:

    Cotton canvas on frame

    SIZE:

    50 x 40 cm

    TECHNIQUE:

    Oil on canvas

    DATE:

    December 2022

    SERIAL N.:

    20221202

    NOTES:

    Made entirely with a spatula

  • The escape of the Ox

    This race is held in Montefalco in Umbria. Each district trains and cares for an Ox throughout the winter, to then have it compete in August against the other districts. The bearers cheer their ox between two wings of the crowd and run at speed along a path traced in a large, rugged field. The ox that covers its path in the shortest time while respecting the boundaries of its lane will be the “champion”.

    TITLE:   

    The escape of the Ox

    SUPPORT:

    Cotton canvas on frame

    SIZE:

    50 x 70 cm

    TECHNIQUE:

    Oil on canvas

    DATE:

    September 2022

    SERIAL N.:

    20220902

    NOTES:

    Painted with a brush

    OWNER:

    Painting owned by Donatela Bonfatti

  • Fighting the night together

    The invisible ones. We pass by them, we pass them at every corner of Milan. The city is full of these people who have left the world and live their solitary life. Many times the only companion is hairy, silent and patient, with whom they manage to spend the night sharing a little warmth and affection.

    TITLE:   

    Fighting the night together

    SUPPORT:

    Cotton canvas on frame

    SIZE:

    50 x 70 cm

    TECHNIQUE:

    Oil on canvas

    DATE:

    September 2022

    SERIAL N.:

    20220901

    NOTES:

    Made entirely with a spatula

  • The Indian’s Holi Festival

    The Holi Festival of Colors in India is a celebration of the victory of good over evil, with the destruction of the demon Holika. It is celebrated every year on the day after the full moon of the Hindu month of Phalguna, which corresponds to the beginning of March. People celebrate the beginning of spring and other events of the Hindu religion; they parade through the streets sprinkling colored powders on everyone, dancing and singing.

    I saw this photo awarded by Corriere della Sera in the spring of 2022. It was too bright to pass by without looking at it. I immediately filed it in my “photos to draw” folder and, one day, after finishing the tulips and still having many colors left on the palette, I decided to experiment using the spatula.

    At Atelier Crespi I had watched Maestro Fontanini teach this technique to a colleague, Vittorio Ragazzini, and, discreetly, I had understood that the color was mixed a lot on the palette and little on the canvas.

    Thus, and unexpectedly, this painting was born, an expression of the joy and happiness of the subject, who lets himself be shaped and seems to enjoy being modeled by the hands of his friends.

    The shot is by photojournalist Channi Anand (AP)

    TITLE:   

    The Indian’s Holi Festival

    SUPPORT:

    Cotton canvas on frame

    SIZE:

    50 x 70 cm

    TECHNIQUE:

    Oil on canvas

    DATE:

    March 2022

    SERIAL N.:

    20220302

    NOTES:

    Made entirely with a spatula

  • Awareness and beauty in the passage of time

    Old Man

    Silently the door of heaven
    closes.
    The night stops waiting.
    The dawn still asleep.
    The sun sleeps supine.
    The sea lingers doubtfully.
    The seagulls still sleepy
    fly like ghosts.
    The golden sand sticks to the feet of an old man.
    The footprints, it seems, hide from others.
    As if he wanted to leave
    this confused land.

    Remembers the past time
    He fears the future time.
    Then he sees among the rocks corroded by furious waves. A familiar flower.
    He remembers when,
    already a man
    he had given it to his wife.
    A sincere smile,
    a tear, now falls on the face.


    Antonio Petrucci
    (2022 Poet)

    TITLE:   

    Awareness and beauty in the passage of time

    SUPPORT:

    Cotton canvas on frame

    SIZE:

    50 x 40 cm

    TECHNIQUE:

    Oil on canvas

    DATE:

    January 2022

    SERIAL N.:

    20220101

    NOTES:

    Painted with a brush

    OWNER: Now owned by Antonio Petrucci

  • A rainy day is not the same for everyone

    This Reuters photo struck me in particular. The renunciation and submission to their own living conditions of these two little girls who work in an Indian dyeworks is disarming. In these countries the working conditions of minors are still the same as those that existed in the West over a hundred years ago. Yet it is here that the wealth and well-being that we enjoy is produced.

    Heavy rains have displaced thousands in northeastern Assam state, with no letup in the deluge. Many people have moved to makeshift camps set up by authorities on higher ground [Reuters]

    In this painting I partially learned how to drape a fabric (of which the maestro Fontanini is an excellent author) furthermore I tried to represent an intense and bright environment under a light rain that weighs down the clothes of the two subjects and fabrics hanging from the ropes after the dyeing process.

    TITLE:   

    A rainy day is not the same for everyone

    SUPPORT:

    Cotton canvas on frame

    SIZE:

    50 x 60 cm

    TECHNIQUE:

    Oil on canvas

    DATE:

    May 2023

    SERIAL N.:

    20230501

    NOTES:

    Painted with a brush

  • You will not bend us

    Gypsy dance is a whirlwind of emotions, where every step tells a unique and unrepeatable story. In a circus tent shrouded in darkness, the scene comes to life in an almost magical way. The soft lights draw an intimate atmosphere, and the only element that emerges forcefully is the face of a rotating dancer.

    Her expression is a picture of breathtaking intensity and beauty. When the music starts, a palpable energy envelops the air. Passion is revealed in every gesture, oscillating between the exuberance of a contagious joy and the sweet melancholy of a lost memory. I cannot see her eyes, but it is her face that captures all my attention, a beacon of emotions that shines in the sea of ​​darkness. Every expression, every movement, speaks of an indomitable strength of spirit.

    As if he were shouting to the world: ‘You will not bend us’

    I captured this moment on a trip to the Camargue in May 2024 with friends from Rotary Saint Cyr sur Mer.

    TITLE:   

    You will not bend us

    SUPPORT:

    Cotton canvas on frame

    SIZE:

    40 x 40 cm

    TECHNIQUE:

    Oil on canvas

    DATE:

    August 2024

    SERIAL N.:

    20240801

    NOTES:

    Made with a brush in Ronchi

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