Patrizia Gioia - L’antica arte del Buon Fresco

The documentary "Patrizia Gioia The ancient art of Fresco" is born from the love and passion for this technique, the desire to spread it, telling a story in an engaging and unusual way, the story of an ancient technique that is born from the meeting of lime and coloured earths ....
The documentary, proposes the disclosure of this ancient technique showing the long process of a wall fresco in a medieval setting of the fourteenth century, when the use of the preparatory sketches on cardboard was already spread.
A movie tense to convey the atmosphere, the feelings and the passion that this fascinating technique arouses in the minds of those who practice it and those who admire, in order to popularize this ancient pictorial form, while a narrator explains it in simple steps.
The movie is not intended as a tutorial but is aimed at a wide audience, with the intention to understand the complexity of the technique and its characteristics and to arouse emotion that the fresco painter tries to create a fresco. " the most sweet and most elusive work to do" (Cennini, in his Art Book)

The work can not be interrupted and then be resumed at a later time and engages physically for hours. The result is unpredictable.

What makes so fascinating this technique is the surface on which you paint, the fresh plaster.

The plaster is painted while it's still wet and this is the reason why the fresco is eternal and essential. What determines the day in fresco is the painter's capacity and the short time available for the pictorial phase. With the passage of time in fact the plaster dries and varies its ability to take or reject the colour, past the golden period in which the brush flies on the surface and the colours blend well, dominating the anxiety to hurry and good. The painter must apply colours while working on all parts of the composition, without indulging in complete a single part, giving time to soak the colours on the plaster. The pictorial day must be carried on without interruption, working methodically and according to the drying time, rapidly and safely without any second thoughts. Fresh plaster is a special support, is alive, is not inert like a canvas, a paper or a board, has its own character to take or reject the colour, while painting the painter must be able to pick up the signals that determine the right time to start and finish the job.
The fresco is an ancient technique that was born from the lime and coloured earth, it was variously experienced over the centuries, depending on pictorial visions, on the available colours and its nature. Natural earths are materials existing in nature, extracted from quarries, known since antiquity and are subjected to a various treatments, they are washed, crushed, cooked to obtain other shades.