Video: Lisa Fittipaldi - the blind artist
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Lisa Fittipaldi's cheerful and picturesque canvases are usually very popular with viewers. But the simple pleasure of looking at the paintings is replaced by amazement and even shock when people learn that the author of these paintings is blind. Blind artist? Not seeing Lisa's work is hard to believe. But the work of this author once again proves that the talent and strength of the human spirit can do more than just a lot - sometimes they do the impossible.
Once we told a story about a blind artist - our compatriot Dmitry Didorenko … However, Dmitry painted pictures even before he lost his sight, and the uniqueness of Lisa Fittipaldi's story lies in the fact that the woman stopped seeing in 1993, and first picked up a brush two years later - in 1995. As a chartered accountant and financial analyst, Lisa lost her job, her independence and the meaning of life along with her eyesight. Her lingering depression lasted for over a year, until one day her husband brought her a children's watercolor set. To everyone's surprise, Lisa picked up a brush and began to paint.
Having no art education, Lisa Fittipaldi faced many difficulties. She could not study the technique of painting, watching the actions of the teacher, she could not see the paintings. But this did not stop the woman, and instead she came up with her own education system: she listened to audio versions of books about art and visited famous museums with her husband, for which she never found time in her previous life. In order to navigate the composition of the future picture, Lisa pulled nets made of ropes onto the canvas, but over time she learned to do without them.
Critics and other artists have repeatedly told Lisa that she can paint abstractions or flowers as much as she wants, but she will never become a real artist, since she is unable to depict people and scenes from street life. It was a challenge, and Fittipaldi answered it with dignity. In 1998, she painted the first street scene and has done so constantly since then. At the same time, it remains a mystery to everyone how Lisa manages to draw without seeing paints and canvas; the artist claims that this is incomprehensible even to herself.
Lisa Fittipaldi's work is regularly exhibited in galleries around the world. In addition, she is the author of A Brush with Darkness, in which the artist describes how she learned to paint while blind.
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