{"id":85814,"date":"2018-10-18T14:23:27","date_gmt":"2018-10-18T13:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/egidimadeinitaly.com\/ecomsite\/signatures\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T13:13:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T12:13:16","slug":"signatures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/egidimadeinitaly.com\/en\/signatures\/","title":{"rendered":"Signatures"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today I would like to start another column that I\u2019m calling “Signatures<\/strong>“.<\/p>\n

\"Signatures
Pablo Picasso
The Master of Cubism<\/i><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Being a lover of art and design, I often spend quite a lot of time looking at works like sculptures, paintings, etc. Besides being intrigued by the gaze of the people portrayed in paintings that I have already told you about, and I will be sharing more details with you later, there is another thing I have always been interested in when it comes to works of art, namely the signatures<\/strong>\u00a0of the various artists.<\/p>\n

\"Signatures\"
Alexander Calder American Modern Art<\/i><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

There are signatures of all ages and styles, from sixteenth century Venice<\/strong>, to contemporary Street Art,<\/strong> from the Primitives<\/strong> to Impressionism<\/strong>, and there are all kinds of signatures, from those just mentioned, to the very showy and conspicuous ones. From hidden signatures to the ostentatious ones.<\/p>\n

\"Vincent
Vincent Willem Van Gogh Modern Art<\/i><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Signatures in block letters<\/strong> and fluttering ones<\/strong>, horizontal and vertical signatures, dated and localized signatures, those with messages and dedications. There are also very elegant<\/strong> signatures and, as you will see, there are even vulgar signatures.<\/p>\n

\"Maurice
Maurice Utrillo French Modern Art<\/i><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

There are very readable signatures but also quite incomprehensible signatures such as those of doctors. There are beautiful and there are anonymous signatures. There are monograms, those written in multiple languages \u200b\u200band those that tease the observer involving him\/her in a kind of puzzle.<\/p>\n

So all tastes are catered to, just like human characters. Indeed, I am not revealing any hidden truth by saying that every signature actually conceals, or rather, reveals a character, a tendency, a personality.<\/p>\n

\"Bernard
Bernard Buffet
French Modern Art<\/i><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Graphology in the West has become a science<\/strong>, while in the East, still in our day, it is the expression of an artistic flair. And so let us have fun with the signatures that I have selected for today.\u00a0I would like to remind you, however, that these images are pictures taken of paintings,<\/strong> and as you know, nothing parallels the emotion one experiences when looking at the actual painting.<\/p>\n

The range of signatures we are viewing today includes top artists such as Raffaello Sanzio, Vincent Van Gogh<\/strong> and Alexander Calder<\/strong> and other perhaps less famous artists that I have selected precisely because of the peculiarity of their Signature<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\"Raffaello
Raffaello Sanzio Signature
Renaissance Art<\/i><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

For example the very confusing signature belonging to Robert Combas<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Robert
Robert Combas
Signatures
Modern Art<\/i><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

or Francois-Xavier Lalanne\u2019s vertical signature<\/strong>, who together with his wife Claude<\/strong> form a formidable couple of artists, famous as ‘animaliers’ sculptors.<\/p>\n

\"Signatures
Francois Xavier Lalanne
French Animalier Artist<\/i><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Their rams made of resin are sold at record prices whenever they are put on sale at international auctions like Christie’s<\/strong> and Sotheby’s<\/strong>.\u00a0And then there are also the exponents of the \u00e9cole de Paris<\/em> like Maurice Utrillo<\/strong> or Leonard Tsugouharu Foujita<\/strong>.
\nThis latter artist L\u00e9onard Foujita<\/a> particularly dear to me, and I suggest you read, if you have not already done so,the article in the Magazine<\/em><\/a> column that talks about the exhibition dedicated to him at the Maillol<\/strong> museum in Paris<\/strong>. The double signature in Japanese characters and in Western characters perfectly represents his parable, constantly straddling the two cultures.<\/p>\n

\"Foujita
Signature
L\u00e9onard Foujita<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Another very interesting signature belongs the French sculptor Antoine Bourdelle<\/strong>, a kind of puzzle with the initials of his name that intersect to form a star<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\"Signatures
Antoine Bourdelle French Modern Artist<\/i><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The signature of the title, which I would call sublime by Giovanni Bellini<\/strong>, is my favorite.\u00a0I think that comparing the signatures of various artists, may in some ways be useful.
\nCompare Bellini’s signature with this latter one, and the abyss that separates ancient and contemporary art becomes strikingly concrete.<\/p>\n

\"Gilbert
Gilbert & George Contemporary Art<\/i><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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