(160425) -- MILAN, 25 avril 2016 (Xinhua) -- Mariani se prépare à la fois la peinture faite de feuille de plomb dans son studio de Milan, Italie, le 13 avril 2016. L'artiste italien Umberto Mariani vit et travaille à un loft dans une ancienne usine à Milan. Mariani, qui aura 80 à la fin de cette année, est surtout connu pour ses plis multidimensionnelle de tissu taillées dans des feuilles de plomb. Au cours des années 1960, Mariani ramassa ses premiers projets faisant œuvre narrative monumentale pour la Basilique Saint-Pierre au Vatican, ainsi que des mosaïques et des fresques, mais le classique des statues grecques qu'il a grandi en observant sur le s

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• Date de la prise de vue: 25 avril 2016
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(160425) -- MILAN, April 25, 2016 (Xinhua) -- Mariani prepares to paint the fold made of lead sheet at his studio in Milan, Italy, on April 13, 2016. Italian artist Umberto Mariani lives and works at a loft in a former factory in Milan. Mariani, who will turn 80 at the end of this year, is best known for his multidimensional folds of fabric carved out of lead sheets. During the 1960s, Mariani picked up his first projects doing monumental narrative work for the St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City as well as mosaics and frescos, but the classical Greek statues that he grew up observing on the streets of Italy had the most profound influences on his work. "In 1974, I started to make paintings where the fold and drapery were the absolute protagonists, " he told Xinhua. "If you thumb through an art history book, you will see that drapery takes 80 percent of the painted or sculptured surfaces." By the 1990s he gave up painting, and up to now in his laboratory new ideas, shapes and colors come out incessantly from lead. He underlined that true artworks require study besides passion. The advice that he gives young artists is not to wait for inspiration, as all the best ideas come out of the work itself. "This is how things went for all the great artists of the past, whose masterpieces such as The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci, just to make an example, were often made on commission and resulted from deep commitment, " he said. (Xinhua/Jin Yu)