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Giovanni Longo Iconografo in Catania
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Giovanni Longo … he is born to Catania in the heart of the historical center, is an emergent figure in the Italian panorama of the iconografica art. Its detached an artistic, fruit of lively personality and creative and affinata sensibility from an intense curriculum of studies, melts itself harmoniously with a rigorous technique. Sin from little one fascinated from the art and the interpretations that of it every people express. The artisan masters s'innamorano from the intraprendenza of the young person adopt and it professionally, é here that Giovanni learns the art liutaia to the school of Master Orlando of the Sogiva, the painting followed from master Giuseppe Corsaro and the sculpture. The young diploma to full ballots to the school of art Ars ET Labor, more late participates to various course. Mature in this way its concept of universalità of the art, that any is beauty is the form in which is expressed and that it applies also to the iconografica art, of which admits different interpretations tied to the traditions, but also to the artistic sensibility that is evolven in every country under various form, considering fundamental and also unavoidable the principles of the traditional technique. Al moment to put down the paint-brush on its before icona, tried to understand cos'è that the masters bizantini wanted to transmit through those tables, passes many years in the studies on the iconography and the iconologia, when the moment arrives to begin to write (to paint before) its icona, becomes account that the icona are not a simple painting on table, but a sacred table, a window opened towards the sky, where the paint-brush not spalma colors but trace the sacred writings. (Dr. Salvatore Distefano)
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Critic An ancient wisdom lives again in the hands of Master Giovanni Longo. Great study and have lead to passion to know to speak it the express language about the ancient iconografi. The sacred image is dressed of the mystical and sublime tones of the east. Scevra from every superfluous decoration, impreziosita from the material gold that é immortality symbol. A travel in the history of Bisanzio is undertaken thus, often neglected, to the discovery of a figurative style that still today dominates the orthodox world. The sacralità suggested from the works of Master Giovanni impetuous and at the same time discreet Longo é. It places the man to contact with thematic and religious issues, enigmas that have elevated to the higher roles in the human culture by now illustrious exponents of the Christian religiosità. Colors live to us and held to the same time loaded with mystical light, coming longest the temporal travel watch to us, giving a mystical moment to us, in order then to return to travel towards the future. They are depositaries of a semplicità message and representative effectiveness that stimulate in all the religious thought. Master Giovanni assures them to Longo to the posteri with its huge and precious artistic acts. D. Marasa' (critical of art)
Giovanni Longo has matured extraordinarily orchestrated a iconografico figurale language. The design is perfect and the colors harmoniously are amalgamated: lights and the shadows turn out dosed very… (Gino Trabini) critical of art.
Siccome the icona is not a portrait but a study of the image, here that the Mother of the Quiet ones of Giovanni Longo proposes some, to the times ours, the technique, the spiritualità, and the character with a modernistica operation in the style, in the lines in the decorativismo, obviously less ancient and originalizzato (as they could be the icone Russian of Suzdal or Podkov). The iconography or the iconologia (in their thin difference between diagram and Didactics, finds in Giovanni Longo renders it who also puts into effect them with pittoriche taste and delicacy without to exit from the emphasized limits of the sacralità. For the adequate reading of the icona the descriptive instrument is fundamental (has written some and illustrated the didascaliche functions concerning rappresentazione Aby Varbury, the Gonbrich and other students) and the reproduction, delicate and fine, as ago Giovanni Longo, it adds to merit to its not certainly easy enterprise in order to remain in the dimensions of the same history of the religions and the iconography of the Art Cretien… (Antonio Caggiano) critical of art.
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