Pics from Rome

"Rome is but nature's twin, which has reflected Rome
We see its civic might, the signs of its decorum
In the transparent air, the firmament's blue dome,
The colonnades of groves and in the meadow's forum."
- Rome, Osip Mandelstam


Here are some pictures I took when I went to Rome in these last weeks:
-The second and third pictures, I took the day the "Futurama" exhbition in Rome was inaugurated, and the effect of the strikes of light and the "movement" effect of the camera, make the pictures even more interesting
- Most of the other pictures show some typical 'views' of Rome, although I decided to take the pictures with different effects (black and white, negative effect and seppia)

Pictures from Isola Farnese trip

Tuesday the 20th of january, during period 6, the Art class went to Isola Farnese to study and draw some sketches of the ancient landscape based on the three word: time, texture, pattern. Below, some pictures of the trip:

Time-Texture-Pattern Painting

I am currently working on a painting based on the following themes:
TIME
TEXTURE
PATTERN
My painting is characterised by dark colours, almost as to display mystery, but not necessarily something negative. It is made up of various pictures I took:
- The bumby skin a frog in Holland
-One of my 10 cats drinking some water
-The fences in the garden of one of my parents' friends in Switzerland
-An ancient clock in the village of Bacharach, Germany
-Blinding and moving lights in the night in my native city, Sierre, Switzerland.

- AlBeRt0 gIaCoMeTtI -

Alberto Giacometti is definitely my favourite sculptor and one of my favourite artists: he has been my greatest inspiration for my latest sculpture of an anorexic woman who's illusion is to appear beuatiful, like the models we see everyday on tv.
Alberto Giacometti has been considered as being a surrealist, an expressionist and a formalist sculptor and artist.
He also received an important prize regarding sculptures in general.

Flemish and Dutch art exhibition in Museo del Corso

If anybody has the intention of going to one of the best art exhibitions ever, go to Via del Corso and see the 1 hour 30 minutes-lasting exhibition on Flemish and Dutch of the 1600's artists such as: Vermeer, Rembrandt, van Dyck. The exhibition will stay till the 10th of February. In my opinion, it was one of the best exhibitions, not only because I am half dutch but also because many paintings were amazing but also because their artistic style, compared to most of the rest of the European artists, is completely different. It is an experience in life.