Fresco painting is a hellishly difficult medium to master. Like watercolour, paint dries fast and a brush mark, once made, stays for good in dry plaster. There are only two great artists who have truly mastered this ancient technique, have in fact, made it their own, due to their super human confidence with a brush. Those two men are, Michelangello and Giovanni Battista Tiepolo.
They seem to have visualised hideously complex dramas in their minds eye and then said, “Right, now all I have to do is paint the damn thing so mere mortals can see it too... And no mistakes!”
I just marvel at Tiepolo’s paintings and think... How the hell did he do it!
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