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The
art of Fiorello Tosoni, is already so well known , then to speak about
it is nearly an obligation, but for the real connoisseurs is at least
superfluous. Tosoni, is a great draftsman, and a master in the art of
glazings. He knows all about the secrets of the painting of past centuries,
but he is feeling the moments of our times, the difficulties of our world
and the traces of these sensations are positively betrayed in his work. |
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d Fiorello Tosoni in the studio 1990 |
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..as far as we are concerned we want to bring up an example regarding a painter who is famous, much appreciated, recognised, and regarded beyond measure for his unquestionable ability to paint portraits. The painter is Fiorello Tosoni, without doubt an artist who in the portrait excels because he adds his ability to psychologically interpret the portrayed person to the quality of formal and physical similarity along with the beauty of the means used in order to reach those well-noted results. However, making portraits - and however beautiful they may be - does not mean being a painter of magnificent quality and extremely refined skill, as is the case with Fiorello Tosoni; his exhibitions, many of which have been held both in Italy and abroad, are witness to this. Tosoni is definitely an artist who senses with the human figure particular predilection but he is also an artist who can be called painter in the widest and most vigorous sense of the term. Mauro
Innocenti |
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seems superfluous to us to remind one that the fame of Tosoni runs along
all parallels, not least that of his master Annigoni, whose favourite
pupil he was, and interesting - a very rare thing - even the front pages
of English newspapers. Salvatore
Sorbello |
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Tosoni,
in a few years, by applying himself to the maximum and subjecting himself
to harsh discipline, has taken his place among the most significant
artists of our time. Antonio
Ciardi Dupré |
Fiorello
Tosoni's master, Pietro Annigoni, gave him much, but Fiorello has enriched
his own work even more through the innate natural sensibility which
has made him a master of colour and light - an enviable technique for
a painter of his age. These few words describe one of the most qualified
Italian portrait painters of our time, who for years now has been travelling
the world to paint commissioned portraits of the famous. Here too Tosoni,
who works at the top of an ancient tower in the heart of the city, from
which he looks out over old rooftops and from where he can examine the
light of dusk and the days steeped in sunlight, takes after his master,
who was also committed to canvas portraits of the famous, and splendid
young women who prefer being immortalised by the hand of a master who
puts his own intelligence and personality into the image, rather than
the cold, impersonal memory of a photograph. |
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ggsg Fiorello Tosoni in his studio 1972 |
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We
could start this short task of ours by saying that the presentation
of an Artist (accept the capital please) such as Fiorello Tosoni is
arduous, difficult - we could say almost embarrassing, given the stature,
artistically speaking, of Fiorello Tosoni. And as almost everybody does,
we should get down to leafing through catalogues, encyclopaedias, specialised
magazines, books, newspapers - the more one has the longer it takes
- in order to come up with some adjective which has escaped the acute
observation of critics in particular, and art lovers in general, to
serve up here in favour of a Tosoni who in no way needs so much chatter,
seeing as his works present themselves easily on their own to the admiration
of those who are fortunate enough to visit an exhibition of his, so
as to lavish - or it would be better to say instil - in their 'self'
all the colour, the heat and the joy that leaps from his canvases. |
.. Tosoni paints with great scrupulosity and is among the most noted artists of our time, while his works, both paintings and graphics, are distinguished by the quality of expressive clarity and the sensibility and harmony of the pictorial discourse. The fineness of his stroke, unravelling through different tones, constitutes the root of Tosoni's work, and of Tuscan art itself . Maria
Volpe |
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An exhibition of drawings and paintings, about forty
works of great emotional impact, has just been inaugurated at the Galleria
Piazza Erbe. Masterpieces by a master from the past when painters were
few and the academies distilled artists of super refined talent. Thin
ranks of the elect entrusted with the task of creating the history of
art. Silvino
Gonzato |
Fiorello
Tosoni, whose skill and art has long been known, has painted a beautiful
portrait of Senator Guido Bisori. from "L'Avvenire" 27 January 1980 |
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Fiorello Tosoni with his mother 1984 |
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A painter of magnificent quality and refined skill, Tosoni has exhibited his most successful works both in Italy and abroad. His paintings testify to a deep spirit, a love of the beautiful and the poetic that springs forth from the faces. He is in fact an exceptional portrait painter and a clever colourist and his canvases reveal a wealth of composition and solidity in the drawing, all amalgamated by a sort of warm colouring. The female faces have to be recognised as masterpieces of elegance, nobility and grace, reflecting the personality of this very creative painter. Fiorello Tosoni's intent has been that of depicting the world and human beings in their truth without superstructures and as realistically as possible. In his "Helena", painted with a mixture of techniques, the woman appears as being idealised, perfect, very sweet. In the landscapes the details are in movement, reality in the process of becoming, and express the quest for a modern language. Cristina
Grazzini, |
Figures and landscapes open onto a complete knowledge of the means of expression. In both cases Fiorello Tosoni manages to grasp the moments of authentic poetry, of real lyricism. The expression in faces, sweet or meditative in a seriousness which causes one to reflect, the composition of the whole, endows the figure with all the suavity of an uncontaminated innocence, the scent of a human flower that has to be enhanced to the fullest because it reflects an interior spirituality. The landscapes are and intend being a hymn to nature, to the streams or ponds of the countryside, lush with life and unpolluted breathing; a nostalgic memory of farmhouses where country life continues in its simplicity as in bygone times, but where there is so much silence and so much poetry. "L'Eco di Bergamo " 20 December 1973 |
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Fiorello Tosoni belongs to that small group of artists whose nostalgia for the golden centuries provides them with the scruple of making themselves congenial to the spirit of the old masters by taking on completely their manner. On the one hand we have the acquisition of a demanding, finite technique which is sharp to the point of virtuosity, and on the other the will to express oneself in a high, ennobling, anti-prosaic language, which dresses reality up in accordance with the solemn rhythms of Renaissance painting and draws benefit from a myriad of cultural remedies and resonance. Tosoni moves through this cultivated and aristocratic climate: the work is long in forming, scorns the casual and the approximate and disposes the observer to an equally long contemplation imposed upon him by the sharpness and clarity of the artist's stroke, the firm compositional architecture - it's clarity. Vittoria
Corti, |
The drawing of Fiorello Tosoni. Traditional, classic, luminous, airy. A drawing which is only "history". A Renaissance drawing fully grasped again from the great masters of the past; cleanliness in the stroke, perfect shading, portrait as portrait, soft modelling. A drawing as "language" in itself more than a support to the painting. Drawing for the sake of drawing: the pleasure of the pencil, of the sanguine, of the pastel. An autocratic language which is just beauty, harmony (a balance of form and thought). A form made up of pure agreements stemming from perfect euphoria. Clotide
Paternostro, |
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fghd Fiorello Tosoni while he paints in his studio 1990 |
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Fiorello
Tosoni, a way of acting between the uncertain and the hasty, a glance
often fleeting; pupil of Annigoni, exceptional portrait painter and
author of disenchanted and finely wrought landscapes that rise up from
the soul and where skill and emotion are well blended. Franco
Riccomini |
The
one-man show of the Prato painter organised by the provincial department
of tourism of Pistoia is now taking place. Faces treated as if they
were Renaissance frescos on board and canvas, detailed shading in which
the model is in part connected to Leonardo-like shading, sadness and
serenity which contrast and at the same time blend faces that go beyond
the human, in faces in which the spirituality transcends the perfect
outline of the form to the point where it reaches levels of high poetry. |
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