Italian designer Alessandro Bavari, born in 1963, regards himself
as a direct heir of the great European fine-art tradition, a spiritual
descendant of such renowned fellow-countrymen as Giotto, Michelangelo
and Piero della Francesca - even though he has exchanged his paint
brushes and canvases for a Macintosh G3.
Bavari's training in scene painting and history of art at Rome's Academy of
Fine Arts gave him a strong grounding in classic techniques such as oil
painting, various engraving styles, watercolours and photography, and with
this classical background, he felt the need to experiment with a new visual
language which would sum up all these artistic experiences.
Bavari is keen to use his classical art training in his images, so will
often create backdrop scenes for his digital work from oil paints and other
traditional methods, using hands, brushes, nails, combs and rags.
Sometime for the backgrounds he paint oils directly on to a sheet of zinc which
was then pressed on to watercolour paper that had been soaked.
Through extensive experimentation, Bavari has created a personal library of
colour effects, synthesising things like the tonal effects in metals, such as selenium,
and trying to capture the nature of an object or colour through the textures and tones
which characterise it.
Since leaving college he has worked as a freelance artist and illustrator, mixing his
college-taught skills with self-taught computer skills to create work for
clients such as Adobe, McCann Erickson and numerous Italian museums,
galleries and publishing houses. He has also exhibited in competitions and
exhibitions worldwide, working as a painter at various galleries in Italy and France.
He set up his own design studio, working in the early years with traditional
media such as oils, inks, photography and engraving.
Now, he work in add, in Direct2brain studios, specialised in computer
animation and videos.
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