Portrait of a girl by Umberto Zini

Artist: Umberto Zini (1878-1964)

Age: 20th Century / 1901 - 2000

20th Century / 1901 - 2000

Subject: Portrait/Face

Artistic technique: Painting

La pittura è l'arte che consiste nell'applicare dei pigmenti a un supporto come la carta, la tela, la seta, la ceramica, il legno, il vetro o un muro. Essendo i pigmenti essenzialmente solidi, è necessario utilizzare un legante, che li porti a uno stadio liquido, più fluido o più denso, e un collante, che permetta l'adesione duratura al supporto. Chi dipinge è detto pittore o pittrice. Il risultato è un'immagine che, a seconda delle intenzioni dell'autore, esprime la sua percezione del mondo o una libera associazione di forme o un qualsiasi altro significato, a seconda della sua creatività, del suo gusto estetico e di quello della società di cui fa parte.

Technical specification: Watercolor

The watercolor or the watercolor is a painting technique that involves the use of pigments, finely ground and mixed with a binder, diluted in the water. The watercolor is a technique that is popular for its speed and for the easy portability of the materials, which have made it the technique of the excellence of those who paints and travelling in the open air. The support used for this technique is the paper that is preferably used with a high percentage of pure cotton as the long fiber of this plant do not change in contact with water. The paper that you buy commercially is measured in grams meter (weight of a sheet of 1 square meter). The preparation of the watercolor painting can be done according to three separate technical: 1) high level of overlapping, which, in addition to giving strength and tone to the same color, give the preparatory drawing, which is usually performed in light pencil, the necessary depth pictorial useful to the representation of the volumes, the shadows and the light; 2) painting wet-on-wet, i.e. the preparation of a coloured pigment to be made on the sheet of wet paper in the above so that the colors from spreading and flowing and giving you a look suffused the painting; 3)painting wet-on-dry, in which the pigment is laid after being dissolved with a sufficient amount of water to slide on the dry sheet.