Tano festa michelangelo biography
In Festa carried out his first work of homage, dedicated to the memory of his prematurely deceased brother, the artist Francesco Lo Savio; in , the.
Tano Festa was one of the most eminent protagonists of the Roman scene in the s and s, the “Scuola di Piazza del Popolo”.!
Michelangelo, A New Pop Icon
We’ve seen photographs of presidents, spiritual leaders, actors, celebrities, or models all turned into Pop Art pieces, so in other words into works of art (although some question their artistic value) by Andy Warhol.
As much as Warhol seemed not to be afraid of any taboos, he rarely screenprinted famous works of art (I can only think of Botticelli’s Venus and Michelangelo’s David).
Maybe he didn’t dare, maybe he didn’t care. But, there was an artist who did dare and by recreating the works of Great Masters in a Pop fashion, he granted them a new, more contemporary dimension which only proved their universal and timeless quality reinforcing their status as real-world masterpieces.
Meet Tano Festa and his New Old Masters.
Jan Van Eyck
Velazquez
Michelangelo
Tano Festa
Tano Festa was an Italian painter and photographer born in Rome in 1938.
He began working in Informel painting,