{"id":1697,"date":"2021-09-22T19:53:21","date_gmt":"2021-09-22T19:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.belfineart.com\/?p=1697"},"modified":"2021-09-22T20:25:44","modified_gmt":"2021-09-22T20:25:44","slug":"stone-carving-with-maestro-tazzioli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.belfineart.com\/index.php\/2021\/09\/22\/stone-carving-with-maestro-tazzioli\/","title":{"rendered":"Stone Carving with Maestro Tazzioli"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The last two weeks I spent in Florence in the middle of the city, in a studio in the basement of a palazzo, making stuff with clay. For the next two weeks, I’m about as far from the city as you can get. The view from the studio where I’m working is over a forested valley where there is no visible trace of human habitation. The studio itself is a located in the back of a tile warehouse down a dirt drive-way off of a narrow, two lane, curvy mountain road. And, I’ll be carving stone. Marble mostly, I think. Nice, hard rock. So, basically, I’m in paradise. Not that I didn’t like the city. In my dream life, I have an art commune in the city and an art commune in the country, and I travel back and forth – with my minions and personal chef.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The view from the studio – OK, there is evidence of human habitation. Telephone poles. But, other than that, it’s just forest.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The view from my lodgings.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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This morning’s painting from the Piazza in Frassinoro<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Starting my first carving exercise. Maestro Tazzioli calls it a “ricciolo.”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I’m here to spend a couple of weeks doing an apprenticeship with Dario Tazzioli<\/a> as well as teaching a landscape painting workshop at the local cultural center for a couple of Saturdays. Dario is going to be giving me some stone carving exercises to work on. And, I may get to help him out with some of his own work. Right now, he’s carving a bunch of huge, oak corbels. (So, he does wood carving too, but mostly stone carving.) There are also a number of other projects in progress scattered around the studio. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m a little short on pictures at present. I’ve been sort of busy and absorbed in working and have been forgetting to take pictures or else forgetting to bring my phone! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

More to come…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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