Video: Sleight of hand by Paolo Troilo. Finger Paintings
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Italian Paintings Paolo Troilo can be called sleight of hand, virtuoso manual work, because he does not need any other instruments. Paints, paper and his own fingers - those inalienable attributes, without which Paolo Troilo is unable to create. However, on his canvases there is not the slightest hint that they were drawn fingerssmeared with paint. Children are taught to draw with their fingers so that they better feel and understand what is happening on paper, so that they can more confidently lead the process of creating a picture. Consequently, an adult who already knows how to hold a brush in his hands, and even use it quite successfully, is much more likely to succeed in drawing in this way. An Italian artist tested this theory on his own experience, and was pleased with the result that he got in the end. The first finger-painting depicted a stately male figure, and immediately caught the attention of the public in the person of the creative director of GAP. This was Paolo Troilo's finest hour.
Probably, it was the success of that very picture that influenced the formation of the artist's creative style. He draws, scooping up acrylic paint with his fingers and drawing it along the canvas, leaving precise neat strokes on it, which later add up to a portrait. Paolo Troilo portrays predominantly strong, slender and stately men, his paintings are saturated with powerful emotional and sexual energy and thus attract attention. In order not to interfere with this, the author deliberately uses a monochrome scale, giving preference to gray, white colors, from time to time allowing himself to shade the background with pale green, more precisely, mustard.
Paolo Troilo lives and works in Milan, exhibits a lot at home and abroad. His work can be seen on the website.
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