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[27 Apr 2009 | View Comments | 855 views]
True love is to die for

Five years ago, exactly on April 2, I was posting a deviation on my deviantART account; it was my very first post up there and I thought a so easy idea wouldn’t be much shared.
The concept is easy, shapes I kove, colors I love and a meaning that, nowadays, is too actual.
That draw has a special place in my heart, and I cut out my current avatar from that.
I’d like to show you, as a form of self celebration: 5 years of my first public art.

True love
This is some kind …

Japan, Ukiyo-e, design, prints »

[25 Apr 2009 | View Comments | 2,565 views]
Ukiyo-e, pictures from the floating world

Ukiyo-e, literally “the pictures from the Floating Wolrd”, is an expression of Japanese Art representing that famous and so mysterious world made of hedonistic lifestyles; the art of Ukiyo-e is first seen in the Edo Period (that goes from 1600 to 1868 under the rule of Emperor Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu), considered one of the most important era beside the Meiji Period (straight from 1868 to 1912 when Japan rose to a world potence with the biggest modernization under the rule of Emperor Meiji the Great – Meiji means Enlightened Rule).
Those …