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Gianfranco Beltrami          Italiano

was born in Milan and worked as an architect for many years. In 1977, he experienced an authentic, complex spiritual crisis, in which he questioned himself about fundamental life issues, as every human being should do at a certain stage of his life. This crisis led to his giving up architecture in favor of painting and Gianfranco set out in search of art masters of unquestionable value, one of which was Pietro Annigoni.
 
In his natural bent for arts, Gianfranco Beltrami has a predilection for esoteric paintings, through which he expresses his secrets and elicits in everyone a different sensation.
This artist has the capacity to express pictorial traditions of past masters, to apply tempera colors, oils, pastels, charcoal, pencil, pen and Indian ink with the power of someone who, when he takes into his hand the means to express what he has inside, knows how to treat it and how to obtain the desired effect.

The results emerge in fabulous portraits and oils, horses in pastel of intemperate and powerful movement, graphical designs showing an almost unreal delicacy of lines, author copies that the author himself would envy, watercolors which reveal a magisterial capacity in design, characteristic of the old masters. The hand obeys the eye, which sees and captures with decisiveness, knowing how to evoke authentic emotions. Of vivid realism are also his wonderful "trompe l'oeil" murals, an antique art of decoration originally used by the Greeks and Romans, which identify a pictorial technique that imitates reality to the extent that it can cover an existing wall and make it become a garden, a terrace, a view on the ocean….

   Gallery

Portraits
Trompe l'oeil
  Oils on canvas
  Watercolors
Grafical designs
Pastels / Charcoals
 
  e-mail contact: gianfranco.beltrami@ticino.com

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