Who’s Giovanni???
He was a painter from Verona, Italy – a famous one – who lived 1526-1578AD. He painted elaborate frescos, which are water based paintings done quickly to merge into the wall before the paint dries. These he did with architectural details to look like illusions. He painted pretend doorways with a person appearing to step out into the room (see pg. 80 Design History 2nd edition by John F Pile. He painted columns and trees so you felt like you were really there.
I wonder how many of Zelotti’s artistic ‘descendants’ we have today? Their work is so imaginative, creative, real…how do they do it?
Think of our sidewalk chalk artists and graffiti brick wall painters. Look at some YouTubers painting so fast we can hardly follow their movement as they paint tree trunks, wooden fences. They are all so good, they look real… like you’d fall into the ‘hole’ drawn onto the sidewalk, or want to run from the snake or tiger painted on the board fence, or walk right into the tree trunk painted to look like the background.
How can they draw what they see? Or what they can imagine? Or something you want to see?
I hope they keep drawing, painting, chalking, whatever it is they’re good at.
Some people ‘talk’ with their art…so others can ‘hear’ through this art.
We need the arts!
Mrs. Goodfinder 