Continuing the Art of Play
March 3, 2021
Artist: Emanuele Tozzoli
About the artist:
Borrowed from JM Art management:
Emanuele Tozzoli, an Italian mixed media artist, fuses themes of abstraction, cubism, and impressionism to create ethereal, viscerally intriguing pieces. Rich in color and emotive body, Tozzoli treats his creative process much like a writing a composition, with an awakened sense for the eyes that a pianist has for the ears.
With a background in music and art, Emanuele was bathed in creativity from a young age.
His roots seem to have fine-tuned his senses, enabling him to be a thoughtful and sensual artist, transcending the barriers of art, music, and emotion to mingle between them all.
Through the tactile use of acrylics, spray paint, and oil pastels, Tozzoli births many striking impressionist scenes, where portraiture meets symbolism, and cubism meets color. Also experimenting with wall enamels and collage, Tozzoli plays confidently with the many niches and methods of expression.
Tozzoli describes his artistic process as a very instinctual and organic experience. “My working method is instinctive and visceral. I often notice that I have finished the painting only at the end.” His rationality is abandoned as he makes connections with his primitive eye and allows himself to enter the flow. He hopes that his works can “inspire and give feelings of freedom to those who look at them.”
His colorful and conceptual, often whimsically fragmented and faded works enable the viewer complete freedom and depth of perception to interpret and muse, his non-prescriptive style, and aura leave much to the interpretation of the individual. For Tozzoli, art is an “instrument of awareness and indispensable knowledge”, whereby he can communicate and compose freely through unfiltered emotion, rooted deeply in his primeval artistic flow. A sense of the sacred or ancient is brought forward in Emanuele Tozzoli’s method and works, he seems to tap into something quite otherworldly and spiritual in his organic practice, giving light to such rare and liberated visual evidence of a mind in complete dedication, passion, and oneness.
Warm-up:
Please find at least one set of printed, drawn, or cut-out eyes to use in your warm-up exploration. We will be cutting out and gluing the eyes on a separate piece of paper to build an inspired Tozzoli piece. We will then play with creating a figure, a person, or an animal.
Project:
As you explore your rhythm in Tozzoli’s style you will develop a finished piece.
Note how this artist begins his work with an underpainting and the drawing and painting are created on top of that. You might prepare a surface ahead of time for your project or simply decide to work on a colored sheet of paper. It is, however, also fine if you choose to work directly on your paper without underpainting.
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I’ve linked Google image searches below to get you started if you’d like:
“I live my art as a deep path of openness and knowledge, in which each painting becomes the materialization of an introspective, dreamlike and extravagant world.”
— Emanuele Tozzoli
Juliet
Knight of Destiny
Protection
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Jean-Michel Basquiat
Jesse Reno
Jesse Reno
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