japanese paintings

TEMPERA ON CANVAS  40 x 50 cm.

"Japanese Paintings" are so called because they look like oriental ideograms, but they actually don't have a title. I don't know, for now, what they represent. I noticed Emanuele has a preference for certain colours, always the same: blue, red and white. I thought he could be interested if I prepared for him a different base to work on. So I painted (myself) two canvases, one all red and the other all blue. Today also Giovanni, Mele's elder brother, wanted to paint and he was using black. Therefore Emanuele, asked for black, too. He also wanted to paint with a brush like his brother was doing. I did give him a brush, but it stayed in his hand a couple of seconds and then it was dropping on the canvas or it was flung on the floor by one of his involuntary movements...It was frustrating. Finally I had an idea: I taped the brush in his hand with his pulse oximeter tape. It worked! He was happy and he managed to trace some lines. Meanwhile he also started scratching and injuring his face with the handle of the brush, because his hands only partially do what he wants. I told him I would take the tape off, but he didn't wanted me to.I understood he considered tracing other squiggles more worthy of even feeling pain. I did leave him like this a bit more, but then I removed everything.

This two paintings, mainly realized with a brush, are, in my opinion, very different from the others, perhaps they are not really finished. I consider them anyway very peculiar!

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