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Guido Molinari Biography

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Guido Molinari was an Italian artist known for his innovative and experimental works in the field of visual arts. His works encompassed painting, sculpture, and installation art, and had a profound influence on subsequent artists.

Different Moments Courses Brain Patterns Constructs Exhaustion

Author:Guido Molinari

“My work is not repetition. It is an exploration.”

Exploration Repetition

Author:Guido Molinari

“In a way, the blank canvas... represents the infinity of trying to use color to express emotions - to assign a linguistic function to color.”

Way Trying Use Emotion Color Expression Function Infinity Blank Canvas Blank Canvas

Author:Guido Molinari

“It's impossible to just localize your perceptions - because the stimuli come from both eyes.”

Eye Impossible Perception Stimulus

Author:Guido Molinari

“Just as with the quartet, each part of a painting is telling a different story.”

Different Stories Painting Quartets

Author:Guido Molinari

“I'm interested in the movement of the eyes across the painting.”

Eye Movement Painting

Author:Guido Molinari

“Just listening carefully to what the musicians are really doing, putting the music in the right time... I became aware of the degree to which time, and therefore duration, was important in music and in art. It had a direct influence on my painting.”

Art Important Music Influence Painting Listening Degrees Musician Direct Right Time Just Listen Duration

Author:Guido Molinari

“With monochrome painting... the idiosyncrasy of the work, its difference, its expression, lies in shape.”

Lying Differences Painting Expression Shapes Idiosyncrasies Monochrome

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“The question of painting is bound up with epistemology, with the engagement of the viewer, with what the viewer may learn.”

May Painting Bounds Engagement Viewers Epistemology

Author:Guido Molinari

“Seeing is looking at something in saturation. But we tend to look at something for, say, 1/30 of a second.”

Looks Seeing Saturation

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“You begin by engaging the left hemisphere of the brain with the overall shape, the basic structure of the painting, and then eventually you engage with the colour, with the mood of the painting and then you are entering the activities of the right hemisphere - and it is in the right hemisphere that ideas of space are born, the realization that you are seeing space.”

Ideas Left Born Space Brain Seeing Painting Activity Shapes Structure Mood Realization Colour Entering Engaging Hemisphere

Author:Guido Molinari

“I choose color on the spur of the moment. People ask me why I paint in red. I do not have the slightest idea. I was painting in blue, then I had a need to paint in red. To be able to interact with the medium, this is the key. There are no sure ways to do art.”

People Way Needs Art Ideas Moments Able Asks Color Painting Keys Red Blue Paint Mediums Ask Me Spurs Spur Of The Moment

Author:Guido Molinari

About the Author

Born: October 12, 1933
Died: February 21, 2004
Known for: Artist
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