Woman head Print

INSIDE OPERAPERTA The first "experiment" of OPERAPERTA, as you know, was a remake of "Lady with an Ermine" by Leonardo Da Vinci. I was given the head. After three rough quick sketches, performed without thinking (I was curious to see what an instinctive approach could suggest to me ) I put spontaneity aside and I tried to be well-informed about this lady. I am interested in people and their stories, after all, so why not to go to discover precisely that of the Lady? I read that there are three theories about who the woman painted by the master might be, but the most widly accepted is that she is Cecilia Gallerani. Cecilia, which, even she was sixteen, becomes lover of Ludovico il Moro. Cecilia, who gives him a son. Cecilia, who is moved away from the Sforza court when the wife of him, Beatrice D'Este, decides that she has endured the presence of that "puta" (meaning "little girl", eh, I recommend!) too long. The thing I found most fascinating, however, was the discovery that I was going to draw a intelligent and highly educated girl. She was able to create around herself a background frequented by the greatest personalities of the time, including Leonardo Da Vinci: Bergamino's residence, Cecilia's last home, in fact, became a meeting point for poets, writers, philosophers, scholars and intellectuals. At that point I took no time to understand how I would draw her. I mixed her features and the face expression to that of a '20s mocking and independent looking woman and I put the brain out, for the obvious reason linked to her love for the culture and thought. I put a worm in its folds, however, a metaphor of pain, such as a thought that occasionally moves, causing pain. The jellyfish, like other anthropomorphic figures, is almost a constant of my work. I use it as one of the representations of fears, anxieties and dangers and in this case I used it to express our fragility, because a gelatinous and soft materia is not able to protect something that is precious and delicate as brain. The only thing created without thinking about it, and it emerged in the paper as a natural consequence, was the "cerebellum chignon", pierced by pins, like a ball of wool. http://valentinacampagni.blogspot.it/

Print:Giclee on Fine Art Paper

Size:8 W x 10 H x 0.1 D in

Size with Frame:13.25 W x 15.25 H x 1.2 D in

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