Saturday, February 6, 2010

Vittoria Facchini, Artist

Vittoria Facchini is a Molfettan artist and is pictured here in her studio. In addition to painting, she is also an illustrator of children's books and has published a few books of her own. One of these is an illustrated version of the traditional Molfettan Christmas song, the Santa Allegrezza, which was released in December. To see a couple of photos about that event, click here and here. In the photo above she was discussing her "Pin-Up" series, which is inspired by 1950's pin-up calendars.
Her studio is a colorful and crazy collection of a thousand different odds and ends, plus two cats who crawl all over everything. I couldn't get a photo of them because they just wouldn't sit still. Vittoria wasn't all that easy to stop either!

13 comments:

gogouci said...

I love the first photo of the artist beside her creation. Their poses complement each other and you captured it perfectly.

VP said...

A nice portrait, a funny studio and a bunch of very interesting works.
Brava Vittoria! (and brava Saretta!)

Bergson said...

she thinks before painting for my wall

Anonymous said...

The confusion of thought and studio and "things" brings back lots of memories. It looks like in her pinups she is striving to achieve some of the Japanese mime (or what ever it is called -- the big eyed people and kids).

It was a nice look back in time for me. Been there and did that a long time ago. Made enough money to buy momma more new shoes.

Leah Marie Brown said...

Thanks for featuring this. I love to see the way an artist looks at the world. It was fantastic to see her interpretation of the 50s pin up models.

magiceye said...

vibrant paintings reflect her vibrant personality!
well captured!

Lowell said...

I would like Vittoria very much based on what your have shown...and I like what I can see of her work very much.

So much talent and creativity.

Leif Hagen said...

She's a beautiful, very talented, artsy woman! And I'm so glad she didn't pose with a "leif hand" position!
: - )

Small City Scenes said...

Wow! An artist's studio would be so amazing to get into. the colors of course. Super shots.

Regarding the Eagles: They are quite easy to get close to because I don't think they are afraid. Of course I don't climb up a tree but get close as I can. they are so regal.

Thanks for the visit. MB

Luis Gomez said...

Nice shots. Like her art and your images.

Louis la Vache said...

«Louis» would like to see more of her work - what little we see here seems to have great energy!

Rob Siemann said...

Very nice postrait!

Anonymous said...

Lovely shots - does she have a website? I would love to buy one of her pieces, thanks.