Luca Magni

Colour as Learnable Operator: A Prepositional Reading of Two Contemporary Figurative Paintings: Grisaille, Water, and the Grammar of Attention in Pippo and Cristian Mesa Velázquez.

This article compares two paintings: Still Hours by the Door, by Pippo, and Baño carmesí by Cristian Mesa Velázquez. In each, a human body has been drained of colour while everything around it keeps its own. In the first, a figure in a loose white shirt sits in a doorway painted...

Visual Lexicon, Grammar and Syntax of Underwater Paintings: Cristian Mesa Velázquez's Works vs Pre-Raphaelite Symbolism and the Hyperrealism of Samantha French (with Italian translation included)

This article examines how three bodies of work, consisting of selected works by the Pre-Raphaelite painters of the nineteenth century, the contemporary American painter Samantha French, and the Cuban-born, Spain-based painter Cristian Mesa Velázquez, use water and the submerged b...