#DIEGO VOCI HAS INLUENCED OTHER #ARTISTS

One of the artists, Christa Volkert-Vogel in Germany who met Diego several times on Diego’s travels to the #Schwarzwald (Black Forest) area, in this case #Offenburg. She not only loved Diego’s master artistry, Christa says “he greatly affected my art.” Christa purchased 5 DIEGO artworks, “La Lettura per il Teatro” (Reading for the Theatre), which she acquired on October 26, 1980, is shown here:

#DIEGO VOCI “La Lettura per il Teatro” (80x70cm, Oil on Canvas, 9802-100)

Christa remembers, “In my youth I had courses at the “Painters Vocational School” in Lahr, with several regional artists including Diego Voci, an internationally known artist and compelling contemporary painter. Thus a sound foundation was created that would help me in my future endeavors. After many years of  making it my hobby, I studied art in 1998 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Lahr. Years later I also taught there.”

(“In meiner Jugendzeit hatte ich an der Malerfachschule in Lahr, bei mehreren regionalen Malern sowie bei Diego Voci, einem überregional bekannten Künstler und überzeugenden Maler der Gegenwart, Kurse belegt. So wurde eine fundierte Grundlage geschaffen, die mir später zu einem Kunststudium verhelfen würde.”)

Christa also recalls one day that Diego was drawing several flower-themed artworks and says her own renderings were highly influenced from that one day forward!

DIEGO VOCI “Flowers” Tempera on Paper (Left) owned by Christa and her own #Flowers

Enjoy more of Antonio DIEGO Voci (1920-1985) masterpieces in the first DIEGO VOCI    PROJECT deluxe coffee-table book: “The Beauty of Diego“

View here for Free:  www.blurb.com/books/5419805-the-beauty-of-diego

GOOGLE “Diego Voci”. CLICK “Images” See just a part of #DIEGO’s world of art!

 

 

 

#MLK Day – Would MLK have stood during the National #Anthem or joined in the #Protest?

#Diego often portrayed people of color. . .he loved people, loved to travel, and live life!

   “Fantasie Africaine“80x60cm 961-553            “Le Masque et la Fille”  70x50cm  841-094      Both created by Antonio #DIEGO Voci in the mid 1970’s

Read more about Diego’s travels . . .

https://diegovociproject.wordpress.com/2017/03/01/morocco-spain-and-glass-paint/

https://diegovociproject.wordpress.com/2014/01/29/morocco-diego-travels-with-helga-to-north-africa-in-1962/

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. . . read more about Diego:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Diego_Voci

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ALL EYES ARE ON #IOWA #CAUCUS

#History is in the making #Tuesday night. And, history is watching very closely. 

We share this amazing caricature, not for a political view, but rather to call attention to the work of an #artist #extraordinaire: Barry #Blitt.

The #NewYorker, by B. Blitt, 1 February 2016 Cover

The viewers are Top Left to Bottom:

#JFK, Abe #Lincoln, #Teddy #Roosevelt, George #Washington, and #FDR.

Courtesy #DiegoVoci™Project

www.diegovociproject.com

#PORTRAITS? “THAT IS NOT #ART,” Diego Voci, 1974

Diego felt his creativity was confined in portraits. #DiegoVoci deeply resisted the restriction. What about caricatures? Diego said,“They are fun. I can be creative.”

In 1976 Frank Freeman somehow convinced Diego to do portraits of his two sons John and Mitch. Frank and his wife had met – and seen Diego several times while living  in #Wiesbaden, Germany. They had even bought a “Landscape” from Diego in Schwetzingen (#Heidelberg area in 1974). See the Freeman’s and other #landscapes on our Pinterest “Landscape” board: https://www.pinterest.com/diegovoci/landscape-gallery/

One day Frank visited “Galerie #Dahms” in Wiesbaden’s fancy Wilhelmsstrasse shopping district and saw a portrait of a young girl. Frank named her “Principessa” as it was unknown who she really was. Diego had  used “pastel and felt-tip on posterboard” to capture the young girl. “It was a commission, that was refused by the ‘buyer’ stating ‘It doesn’t look like my daughter’!”

Having not forgotten the exquisite portrait, for Frank it was “the inspiration for asking Diego to do my boys – over his protestations!” Just months before Frank and his family were due to return to the United States he commissioned Diego do portraits of his sons, John and Mitch, then 9 and 5 ½.

John, age 9 and Mitch, age 5 1/2 (1976) by #Diego

“On a Sunday afternoon in mid-July 1976, I took the boys to his Wiesbaden home (Taunusstein), where Diego spent about 15-20 minutes capturing each boy’s likeness.” Frank recalls, “when I got home, I began to see the “Principessa’s” father’s viewpoint . . . the portraits weren’t really as the boys looked.” But “3 years later, comparing the boys to their portraits, they were EXACT likenesses!!! Diego had envisioned the boys as they would look a few years later. THEY matched what he had drawn!! Prescient!!”

A few days before leaving Germany Frank recalls to his surprise, “I got a call from Siegfried DAHMS, owner of the gallery, who informed me that DIEGO had instructed that I be given the portrait of “Principessa” in appreciation for our patronage.” Frank owns it.

“Principessa” Unknown Subject, “Who am I?” Diego drew me in 1974.

To this day, it is a mystery as to who the young girl may be. Frank hopes that someone out there may see this post! Do you know who she is?

Another rare portrait done in charcoal and pastels by #Diego of Mike Kennedy’s mother in the early 60’s can be seen: https://diegovociproject.wordpress.com/2015/01/19/mothers-portrait-by-diego-and-new-generation/

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#ART by Diego #Rivera and Diego #Voci

Both Diegos were fascinated by the people around them.

Both Diegos were considered #figurative artists.

Both Diegos portrayed the working class.

WHICH is WHICH?

Search Google: “Diego Rivera Paintings” AND/OR “Diego Voci Project”

Be sure to CLICK on IMAGES in tool bar for both Google results.

Find a plethora of #masterpieces by both #Diegos.

Tell us WHICH is WHICH: diegovociproject@gmail.com

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AC P of W #264 4/15/2015