IN THE MANNER OF…
Design by Fabrizio Bianchetti
The term “avant-garde” (literally, “advance guard”) designates the spirit of cultural innovation that looks towards a new destination for artistic research using unconventional means: the artist abandons conventions and finds her/his own expressive form, often standing in open contrast to past experiences of art.
In the manner of… Collection was borne of these premises, a collection that looks to the art of the early twentieth century as an inspirational muse for the elaboration of its own designs. In the manner of… consists of 9 designs reproducible in series or as large wall paintings in different colours. The painters Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque and Giorgio Morandi, as well as the architect, designer and painter Charles Rennie Mackintosh, were the source of inspiration for the designs of the collection.
In the manner of… Collection looks to the art of the early twentieth century as an inspirational muse for the elaboration of its own designs. In the manner of… consists of 9 designs reproducible in series or as large wall paintings in different colours. The painters Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque and Giorgio Morandi, as well as the architect, designer and painter Charles Rennie Mackintosh, were the source of inspiration for the designs of the collection.
IN THE MANNER OF… GIORGIO
The painting of Giorgio (Morandi) can be defined as unique and universally recognized; very well-known are his still lifes in which the objects represented (bottles, vases, coffee pots) are taken out of their functional context and analysed in their pure essence. One of his defining characteristics was his use of very few colours: this made his work poetic and surreal when defining the shapes of his objects in the infinite shades and hues of vibrations. For this reason, his painting is called “tonal painting”
IN THE MANNER OF… CHARLES
Charles (R. Mackintosh) is the leading exponent of the so-called “school of Glasgow”. Mackintosh developed his own style, characterised by the contrast between strong and exact angles and floral decorative motifs with delicate curvatures: an example is the rose motif, used together with some references to traditional Scottish architecture.
IN THE MANNER OF… GEORGES
Eliminating artifices such as chiaroscuro and perspective, Georges (Braque), reduced the palette to only solid colours, and exploited geometric volumes. Over time, Georges developed a fantastic alphabet made of a few lemmas (birds, the charioteer, the lovers, the earth, a fish, a vase, a mandolin, a skull, a bunch of grapes, etc.) always replicated and again perfected in search of the ultimate and definitive simplicity.
IN THE MANNER OF… PABLO
It is said that the first word spoken by little Pablo was not the traditional “mother”, but “piz!” from “ lápiz”, which means “pencil”. And before even starting to speak, Pablo (Picasso) drew.
