Quotes About Fresco

Art is the provocation for talking about enigma and the search for sense in human life. One can do that by telling a story or writing about a fresco by Giotto or studying how a snail climbs up a wall.

Sets of lines can say something about the direction and nature of the light. They are used by great fresco painters as a sign for shade.

Opinions are very dangerous, because they aren't based on scientific studies.

Un hiver, je rendis visite, à pied bien entendu, à mon frère qui séjournait alors dans une petite bourgade campagnarde où il était chargé de décorer à fresque une salle de bal. Malgré la saison froide, j'avais choisi une tenue toute mince et légère; m'encombrer peureusement d'étoffes lourdes et épaisses m'eût paru une gêne désagréable, une peine superflue.

fresco of an actor's mask from a room in Augustus' house on the Palatine Hill, which may have been his bedroom. The princeps enjoyed theater and, to judge by his last words, saw himself as a performer. He asked the people around his bedside: "Have I played my part in the farce of life well enough?

The years merge: my memory forms but a single fresco whereon are crowded the events and travels of several seasons.

Michelangelo then summarily fired his Roman staff of assistants. He next sent for five longtime friends, all artists with experience in fresco work, to come in from Florence for the duration of the project. Some would later on be replaced, but Buonarroti hired only Florentine helpers with tightly closed lips, so that none of the Roman spies could find out what he was really putting up on the Sistine ceiling.

Here the play of light from high roof-windows on fountains and pools created a moving fresco on the patterned walls. Where the columns thinned in number, a great plaza was revealed: the place where Roirbak worked and played. The austere shapes and superimposed perspectives of this ostentatious indulgence produced effects that made Tammuz feel as if he were trapped in some Cubist virtual reality.

the ignorance of a bigwig who asked if Michelangelo's fresco The Last Judgment was about a trial of Mussolini.

It depresses me to look at old frescos, responded the Count; it is a pain, yet not enough of a pain to answer as a penance.

The balcony encircled the entire room and provided access to two levels of towering carved oak bookshelves. A huge domed ceiling loomed above her, featuring an eighteenth-century Italian fresco. A large weather-beaten Coleman tent had been set up in front of a massive stone fireplace.

I'm working on new techniques. I'm trying to find a way to make fresco that can be detached from a wall, and I'm trying to find new people who can help me work on a very large scale in bronze.

The theatre, like the fresco, is art fitted to its place. And therefore it is above all else the human art, the living art.

But there are those who starve to death and all I can do is be born. My rigmarole is: what can I do for them? My answer is: paint a fresco in adagio. I could suffer the hunger of others in silence but a contralto voice makes me sing—I sing dull and black. It's my message of a person alone. A person eats another from hunger. But I fed myself with my own placenta. And I'm not going to bite my nails because this is a tranquil adagio.

A Christ upon paper, though it were the sacred pages of the Gospel, would have been as powerless to save Christendom as a Christ in fresco; not less feeble than the Countenance which, in the last stages of its decay, may be traced on the wall of the Refectory at Milan. A living Christ is the key to the phenomenon of Christian history.

Here is where a real fresco should be painted, one without importance, but one with real faith, mapless, Historyless.

Historija radi Å¡irokim potezima, a fresco. Historija slika dekorativno!