The work you see here just left for California. It will participate in the San Diego Watercolor Society's international exhibition in October 2024. My piece Posing by the Car was selected out of thousands from around the world. Only 104 paintings will be exhibited in Cali.
I am very happy with this choice because this work marks a step forward in my search for style (and message) which I have gradually been carrying forward for 3 or 4 years. First of all there is the choice to also work with the figure, then to look at the contemporary world and finally a work on style and color.
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| Young Lady Posing by the Car (Lincoln Continental 1971) Watercolor painting by Francesco Fontana |
This girl struck me on a street in Berlin, posing next to a vintage American car. Her boyfriend photographed her, probably to post it on social media. Her attitude seemed very typical of our times to me.
My Street Business series - dedicated to people who do the most varied jobs on the street - has been exhibited at various festivals, awarded and collected. The narrative continues, insisting on the testimony of our contemporaneity, with all the wonder and horror that it offers us today. The potential of the watercolor medium also continues to stimulate a stylistic challenge in me.
Where are you at in your journey?
Francesco
Happy Art Life! -- Francesco
