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Banco Popolare di Verona: Analysis drawing and prints, 1984

 File — Box: OSxx-1, Folder: 5

Scope and Contents

A first-year drawing exercise for students to hone their skills working with color media, this assignment involved selecting a documented interior space that made use of color. Pellino chose Carlo Scarpa's Banco Populare di Verona, making a series of intaglio prints that capitalized upon the skills he'd learned the year before he started the degree program at Parsons. He used etching, aquatint and drypoint, later hand-coloring some of them in watercolor. "The large interpretive drawing was less successful," explains Pellino, "perhaps because my research and documentation of the actual space were not complete. Lacking an understanding of Scarpa’s concept I developed a loose interpretation and rendered it in mixed media."

Dates

  • 1984