Where my Art comes from - Part 2

As I wrote 2 days ago, I think I can list some elements which form part of my art, and where I learned them at first.

Well, honestly I don't remember all the older influences in my visual language. Just some of them.

This is my list: 

• Transparence
• Perspective and lacking of it
• Fairy-tale characters
• Animals
• Strong contrast
• Multiple layers
• Symbols
• Complementary colours
• Primitivism.

I talked about the first 4 of those elements in the first part of this post. Now I'm going to show my debts regarding the last 5 of them.

Strong Contrast. I love so much the strong contrast effect! In the past I used it in extreme ways. When I think to a great contrast between light and darkness, the first thing I remember is Caravaggio. But I also remember some comics with a very decisive black and white background. In "Corto Maltese", by Hugo Pratt, for exemple. Or in Alberto Breccia drawings.

Multiple layers. This element is technical. It is a way to obtain a result, but you don't see it looking at the result. That's way I have to quote two cartoonist at first: Richard Corben and Enki Bilal. But I have a debt too with some painter from Symbolism, like Arnold Böcklin.

Symbols. Painting is talking using symbols, in a way. I always loved images from word puzzles and their simplicity. But I also watched a lot of ancient symbolic images, like the ones from mythology or from alchemical essays, or from Romanic sculpture

Complementary Colors. Using complementary colors is something every artist got from Impressionism. I have to name Cézanne e Gaugain instead. But I must also say that I'm not such a colorist.

Primitivism. It means, for me, Picasso, the greater revolutionary of the 20th Century. What a shock was for me watching the first time the Cubism faces, and the characters in Guernica!

I can see that this recap of my artistic debts is very deficient and probably useless. Probably I wrote these posts mostly for me, not for other readers. Sorry :)

Image sources

https://www.pinterest.ca/pin/407786941243917455/

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Calling_of_St_Matthew_(Caravaggio)

http://gatesthecomic.com/2011/12/17/richard-corbens-den-influence-hal-hefners-comic-book-gates/

https://www.lambiek.net/artists/b/bilal.htm

https://www.pinterest.com.au/pin/51932201925802205/

http://mvl-monteverdelegge.blogspot.it/2014/03/litalia-rimpianta-e-immortale-nei-rebus.html

http://arteconlaprof.blogspot.it/2015/11/larte-romanica.html

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