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Domenico Gnoli (May 3, 1933 - April 17, 1970) was an Italian painter known for his unique abstract expressionist style. His works integrated the influence of Eastern art and profound insights into nature and the universe.

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Author:Domenico Gnoli

“There isn't much to say about my childhood. I remember explosions of intense happiness, followed shortly afterwards by profound melancholy that always prompted remarks and comments from those around me on how remote my life was from my age. Therefore I rapidly lost all my respect for age. From then on, I always lived without any age, given that every year I used to repudiate it, choosing another one for the sole good reason that I liked it better.”

Years Reason Age Remember Used Lost Given Childhood Profound Intense Melancholy Comment Sole Remarks Explosions

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“Life can be considered as a huge wardrobe, with so many dominos hung in its cupboards, one domino per year. Now I don't see why I couldn't change my mask in this wardrobe even twice a day.”

Years Huge Mask Hung Wardrobe Cupboards

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“I was born knowing that I had to be a painter, because my father, an art historian, always presented painting as the only acceptable thing in life.”

Art Father Born Knowing Painting Painter Historian Acceptable Things In Life

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“I never lost the taste and craft of the Renaissance.”

Lost Taste Crafts Renaissance

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“For many years it was difficult for me to paint because I didn't feel the informal painting that was then tyrannically dominating painters and art collectors.”

Feels Years Art Difficult Painting Paint Painter Collectors Dominating

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“I am metaphysical inasmuch as I am looking for a non-eloquent painting, immobile and of atmosphere, which feeds on static situations.”

Situation Painting Atmosphere Metaphysical Static Eloquent

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“I never tried to stage, to fabricate an image.”

Stage Fabricate

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“I always use given and simple elements, I don't want to add or subtract anything.”

Want Use Given Simple Elements Add

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“I haven't even ever wanted to distort. I isolate and represent.”

Wanted Havens

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“My themes are derived from current events, from familiar situations, from daily life, because I never actively intervene against the object, I can feel the magic of its presence.”

Feels I Can Situation Magic Events Objects Currents Familiar Theme Daily Life Current Events

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“I couldn't get used to the community and social life of a theatrical set designer.”

Used Social Community Designer Theatrical Social Life

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“An audience is perhaps unnecessary to the soul-searching mystic, but it is vital to the magician, the maker of prodigies.”

Soul Audience Makers Unnecessary Magician Soul Searching Mystic Prodigies

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“Prodigy only feeds on prodigy, fantasy on fantasy.”

Fantasy Prodigies

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“The performance on the stage has its reasons in the performance induced in thousands of separate minds and this second performance is no less prodigious than the first.”

Mind Firsts Reason Stage Performances Prodigious

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“I call prodigy all that is invented, all that begins to exist from the second it is conceived, it is the process not the results, the principle and not the fruits.”

Process Results Principles Fruit Prodigies

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“You begin looking at things and they look just fine, as normal as ever, but then you look for a while longer and your feelings get involved and they begin changing things for you and they go on and on till you only see your feelings, and that's why you see this mess.”

Looks Feelings Fine Goes On Involved Normal Mess Get Involved

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“I know how pathetically inadequate my medium [painting] is, but unfortunately I dispose of no other.”

Knows Know How Painting Mediums Inadequate

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“All I know is that mine was a completely new theory about art, a new approach that made the pictures appear just like life does.”

Knows Doe Art Made Mines Theory Approach New Approach

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“I don't want to think that I am going to believe that I am a hell of a genius, or anything like that.”

Thinking Want Believe Hell Genius

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“My life provides me with these images that become expressions of my daily experience.”

Expression Daily Experience

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“Only thanks to Pop Art, my painting has become understandable.”

Art Painting Pops Thanks Pop Art

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“I can only speak for myself but for me imagination and invention cannot generate something more important, more beautiful and more terrifying than the common object, amplified by the attention that we give it. An object alone, in front of me who is alone, exactly in front of me just as I would like to have in front of me someone who really interests me, in a good light to better observe it.”

Giving I Can Important Light Beautiful Speak Interest Imagination Common Attention Fronts Objects Invention

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“If an artist has the possibility to contact an infinitely larger public through the pages of a publication, he should try to invest more rather than less and go as far in his effort to communicate his inner image as he can.”

Ifs Should Trying Artist Effort Possibility Pages Communicate Contact Publication

Author:Domenico Gnoli

About the Author

Born: May 3, 1933
Died: April 17, 1970
Known for: Painter
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