{"id":85819,"date":"2018-11-22T14:23:27","date_gmt":"2018-11-22T13:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/egidimadeinitaly.com\/ecomsite\/signatures-2\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T13:14:36","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T12:14:36","slug":"signatures-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/egidimadeinitaly.com\/en\/signatures-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Signatures 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

Signatures 2.<\/h1>\n

The signatures of famous painters<\/h2>\n
\"Francis
Francis Picabia French Modern Artist<\/i><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Today in our Magazine<\/strong>, for Signatures 2<\/strong>, we’re taking another look at the signatures of some famous and not-so-famous artists.<\/p>\n

\"Signatures\"<\/p>\n

Old Master<\/i><\/p>\n

If you haven’t already read “Signatures<\/a>” I suggest you do so.<\/p>\n

\"Signatures
Henri Matisse French Modern Artist<\/i><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The artists we’re considering today are again a diverse group, intersecting many eras and styles.<\/p>\n

\"Signatures
Fernand L\u00e9ger French Modern Artist<\/i><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Here, we’ll look at and compare the signatures of all sorts of artists: primitive painters<\/strong>, 16th-century, painters, the 1960s Fluxus group<\/strong>, and Impressionists<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\"Signatures
Ren\u00e9 Magritte Modern Art<\/i><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We’ll look at the signature of Ren\u00e9<\/strong> Magritte<\/strong>,\u00a0 as spare and clean as his art, next to an extremely elaborate signature, like in an illuminated manuscript, by a primitive artist<\/strong> whose name I don’t know.<\/p>\n

\"Signatures
Claude Monet
French Impressionist Artist<\/i><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We’ll look at Odilon Redon<\/strong>‘s signature, just as dreamlike and symbolic as his artistic style, alongside the rather less evocative signature of the artist Ben.<\/p>\n

\"Odilon
Odilon Redon Modern Dreamlike Artist<\/i><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Ben’s bio reads, “Born in Naples in 1935 of an Occitan-Irish mother and Swiss-French father and, after living in various countries \u2013 Turkey, Egypt, Greece, and Switzerland \u2013 in 1949 he moved to Nice.”<\/p>\n

\"Signatures
Ben Contemporary French Artist<\/i><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

With a back story like that, you might expect him to have some sort of eclectic style, a mingling of genres and experiences.<\/p>\n

But, no, not at all: Ben Vautier<\/strong> owes his success to paintings on which sentences appear the likes of “La mort est eternelle<\/em>” [Death is eternal] and “L\u2019art est inutile<\/em>” [Art is useless].<\/p>\n

\"Signatures
Gaston Chaissac French Modern Artist<\/i><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

You’ll also see Gastone Chaissac<\/strong>‘s signature,\u00a0which looks like that of a child, and then that of the Impressionist Alfred Sisley<\/strong> that verges on getting lost amidst the painting’s brush strokes.<\/p>\n

\"Signatures
Alfred Sisley French Impressionist Artist<\/i><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

But you know that my true love is ancient art, so, needless to say, my favorites are that of Giovanni Battista da Conegliano, <\/strong>known as Cima and the one in the heading.<\/p>\n

\"Signatures
Cima da Conegliano
Italian Old Master<\/i><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Open, unfurling like a scarf waving at a stadium, it reads “Joannes de Mansuetis faciebat”;<\/p>\n

Joannes de Mansuetis. Who’s that?<\/p>\n

The Treccani encyclopedia tells us: “Mansueti<\/strong>, Giovanni<\/strong>. – Year and place of birth uncertain.”<\/p>\n

But what do we care? His signature is still a small masterpiece.<\/p>\n

I chose the last signature out of curiosity: what looks like an ad for a famous clothing brand is actually that of an artist, a certain Edmond Aman<\/strong>–Jean<\/strong>, whose bio tells us that he was a \u201cpeintre figuratif, graveur et critique d’art<\/em>\u201d [figurative painter, engraver, and art critic] in the early 20th century.<\/p>\n

\"Signatures
Signatures Edmon Aman Jean Modern Art<\/i><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

See you back next time for: Signatures<\/strong><\/a> 3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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