{"id":1999,"date":"2017-01-22T19:28:27","date_gmt":"2017-01-22T19:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projectmarta.com\/opere\/childrens-corner-2-2\/"},"modified":"2017-01-22T19:28:27","modified_gmt":"2017-01-22T19:28:27","slug":"childrens-corner-2","status":"publish","type":"opera","link":"https:\/\/projectmarta.com\/en\/opere\/childrens-corner-2\/","title":{"rendered":"CHILDREN\u2019S CORNER (2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><em>Children&#8217;s Corner (2),<\/em> is a mixed media painting on canvas which measures 250 x 180 cm, where the canvas is \u00a0a diptych composed of a lower wire of 180 x 180 cm and an upper measuring 70 x 180 cm.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The painting shows two little boys, the artist\u2019s sons, arranged in a state of equilibrium that seems precarious, a metaphor of reality in which the father felt to live \u2013 even if with irony and fun \u2013 in the years of their childhood. The title refers to a Debussy\u2019s artwork that Velasco feels exactly like the time dedicated to children and their liveliness.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">On the canvas, painted with oil paint, there are glued elements such as a cloth, which replaces the shorts <strong>of the <\/strong>upside down <strong>child<\/strong>, and a string. These are delicate elements, easy to detach as the pictorial surface prevents the glue to make the necessary grip, especially in the case of the applied cloth.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">This painting is part of a private series dedicated to Velasco\u2019s son, and so not for sale.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Excerpts from the technical interview to Velasco Vitali:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><em>\u201cI enjoyed thinking of portraits made with the loving eye that can be devoted to your children, a \u201cCorner\u201d as a private space, an ironic look in the middle of children\u2019s mess , who rarely reciprocate your gaze and meet our expectations. Having an age that was not possible to have them posing \u2013 eight and ten years \u2013 I adapted the artwork to their movements, the paintings have suffered the same reversal of my life. \u201c<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><em>\u201cIn some cases I make a sketch, a collage, a project I have in mind and that I can easily carry on in to the canvas. In this case, however, the picture is created by framework, without a precise outline. I had only the photographs of the children to refer the faces to and it took me almost a year to complete it, return\u00a0on it many times, adding and taking away particulars. \u201c<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><em>\u201cI used linseed oil, in that period I also used white spirit or turpentine, to which I\u00a0become allergic maybe because of\u00a0too much exposure to them. In the past I used a specific brand, while now I can not find the same anymore. I got used to it and now I can feel the difference with other colours. The yield changes a lot and to understand its characteristics is important in order to work better. \u201c<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><em>\u201cThe passage of time is not acceptable on the paintings as it is for the sculptures instead, but it\u2019s already happened in some artworks that colours changed completely. Some variations are magical, very harmonious, but the colour is altered or fades it should not be acceptable, but as often there\u2019s nothing doable it then remains an unsolvable inner pain. \u201c<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Children&#8217;s Corner (2), is a mixed media painting on canvas which measures 250 x 180 cm, where the canvas is \u00a0a diptych composed of a lower wire of 180 x 180 cm and an upper measuring 70 x 180 cm. The painting shows two little boys, the artist\u2019s sons, arranged in a state of equilibrium [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":226,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1999","opera","type-opera","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projectmarta.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/opera\/1999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projectmarta.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/opera"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projectmarta.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/opera"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/projectmarta.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/opera\/1999\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projectmarta.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projectmarta.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}