According to Piero Fornasetti, a single idea provided the opportunity to develop others ideas.Fornasetti gave free play to his imagination to the point that most of his work is based on endless variations of several themes. Amongst these, the most recurrent are the sun, playing cards, harlequins, hands, self-portraits and so on. The most famous is the one that Fornasetti himself called "Theme and Variations", representing the enigmatic face of a woman. He found the face of the woman while glancing through a French magazine of the 19th century: her name was Lina Cavalieri. Perhaps he chose this face for its archetypal, classic female features. Like a Greek statue and enigmatic like the Mona Lisa she was perfect to be moulded into the idea Fornasetti had in his mind.
With great modesty, all this work was reproduced on a series of everyday objects like plates, ashtrays, umbrellas stands and trays. At the beginning there were only six white plates decorated with black and white designs representing a female face. Then this series has spontaneously increased during the years until it reached 350 different variations on the theme of classical beauty. - via www.Fornasetii.com
Is it dinnerware or art? Should you place it on the dining room table, or on a wall?
The epitome of design art, Piero Fornasetti.
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