#arttheory

The subject of colour theory can seem daunting and a bit dry but it doesn’t need to be. Just learning a few basic principles of colour theory and values can help you to set an easy to remember structure

I tried to think about a subject I recalled recently listening to the first video chat of the @sndbox project  I guess everyone knows the amazing Sndbox Project (->website)  created and managed

Watch it on Viewly end-preview Here is a short video of a painting I did without sketching or even thinking about it before. I did thousands of painting in 40 years of work as an artist, so some subjects

Narration, in my humble opinion, is the natural way our thinking works. We learn things creating and knowing stories. Music and Literature were born to remember and transmit knowledge, in the Western

How do you become an artist? Being an artist is a job OR a way to communicate. Or BOTH. Here I talk about the "both" part. As a child, you fastly learn something about art and artists. By chance, while

It's always a good idea for me to let my artworks talk for me. They are smarter. Unfortunately, they talk their own language, that is something not easy to understand, I think. Not even I can understand

One of the purposes of  modern Art (and of ancient Art too, mostly) is to put in front of our eyes things we can't find elsewhere, so that our brains have to create stories to describe them. Artists

This is a post about art. It will not be so long. It's about how a work of art needs today to be linked to some events, to be understood and to leave a mark in the brain of the viewer.  Our brains

I paint, draw and sculpt using different styles. I have always done this way.  For the Art Market, it is bad.  So it goes. But I think - and hope - things will change, becouse styles, in art,

Images are often symbols. Images are always clusters of meanings. That's the peculiar way images communicate informations: by a concretion of meanings. So, when artists create images, or objects, they

Street Art and its official sanction are the biggest innovations in Art History of the last 30 years. Ok, and Digital Art too. Street Art has been assimilated by the art market and now street artists are

I did a video with a sampling of artworks I made in 2016. It's a very fast round up of a year of work. 100 artworks in about 25 seconds. A work of art needs time from people to enjoy it. So a rapid series

How do you descrive a work of art using words? As of yesterday, you would have listed the technique, the historical style that you think  is closest to that work of art or the group or art movement

Here are some more artworks I did during the last months. I think the subject is something like "human doubts in a sea of oddity". I spreaded these images around the web and exhibited them in public rooms