Tuscan artists we love - Antonio Possenti

ANTONIO POSSENTI (Lucca 1933 - 2016). An autodidact, he came to painting through the fascination of the magic of drawing and illustration. After an initial “pink-blue Picassian” period, he came to define the style that he never abandoned throughout his artistic career, portraying an apparently naive, fairy-tale, fantastic, dreamlike world. A magical atmosphere in which his famous "bewitched tales" take place, childish spells with strong symbolic and allegorical meanings. The oneiric dimension is underlined by the presence in many of his works of his self-portrait, often unnoticed and confused in the crowd of figures and objects.