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| Colour is learned from reality,
through observation... The painter’s task is somewhat like the alchemist’s: transforming inert matter into the perfection of his work. This goal was particularly apparent in the work of Gianni Maimeri. He wrote in his diaries, “What you call a delightful flower, I call a harmony based on rose lake, pale blue, white and pale yellow, slightly cooled by a touch of emerald green. Yet it never stops to be a flower.” To Maimeri, matter was colour and colour was matter. The ongoing investigation and transformation of his painting, of colour as matter and of himself led Gianni Maimeri to produce two great works: a large corpus of beautiful paintings and a paint manufacturing company which carries on with his work and his ideal: producing colours that meet all artists’ needs... |
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| Get your hands moving...
free your mind! Why decorate? There’s isn’t any reason, really. The majority of the population lives a good life without grappling with brushes, colours, pastes, varnishes, waxes and so on and so forth. And besides, you can now buy a vast selection of photographic reproductions of ornamental motifs and ready-decorated objects in the shops. So why bother? Why dedicate so much of your precious free time to making something you could buy ready-made? To answer that question, let us consider another example... |
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