Art and Surroundings

The “Il Post” writes about the channels of art telesales on TV

2023-06-12T14:14:03+02:00

Il Post is a free Italian online daily newspaper covering Italian and foreign generalist information. It deal from news to politics, foreign affairs to technology, sports, culture and more. A few weeks ago, a reporter from the newsroom came to visit us to do an interview and write an article on telesales art channels: On some channels on TV there are still people selling artwork In this article, a bit of the history of art and antiques telesales from the 1980s to the present is explored, with all the social, technological, and legal implications that have taken turns over the last [...]

The “Il Post” writes about the channels of art telesales on TV2023-06-12T14:14:03+02:00

Rene Lalique, The Genius of Elegance

2023-06-13T10:16:21+02:00

*Art Nouveau at the end of the 19th century* Within the general framework of Art Nouveau, which "exploded" towards the end of the last century with a vitality that involved the entire panorama of plastic and applied arts, jewelry represented one of the most congenial forms of expression for the practical application of the new theoretical axioms. One such dogma was the return to nature, and at the same time the use of new techniques, made possible by the onrush of progress or even by these artists' own research. As with all other art forms, a basic stylistic unity manifested [...]

Rene Lalique, The Genius of Elegance2023-06-13T10:16:21+02:00

Neapolitan gouache

2023-06-13T10:07:58+02:00

* ...Nu picture is luntananza... The technique of "gouache," or "gouache," has always been used in painting, but it is in the landscape genre in the eighteenth century that it yields its most significant results. In Naples it spread from the second half of the 18th century and persisted throughout the 19th century. The technique uses water as the basic solvent with the addition of rubber to agglutinate the color. The resulting effect is a light painting somewhere between tempera and watercolor: the tones are less full-bodied than in tempera, and the reduction in intensity is achieved not by thinning [...]

Neapolitan gouache2023-06-13T10:07:58+02:00

The “white” Majolica tiles of Compendiary style

2023-05-08T16:37:02+02:00

The term 'Majolica' refers to all those artifacts made from worked and subsequently fired earth. Since ancient times the soils and clays used came from quarries or rivers and were previously treated and purified before use after which the mixture was mixed with other elements according to predetermined doses designed so that the material would reach a certain density and then be shaped with a potter's wheel (the wheel) or simply pressed into a mold. Every single step in the processing was done by hand, thus almost always resulting in unique specimens. Before firing, the object was dipped in a [...]

The “white” Majolica tiles of Compendiary style2023-05-08T16:37:02+02:00
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