Female nudes
oil painting on canvas
cm 65 x 81
pencil on paper
cm 15 x 24
oil painting on canvas
cm 50 x 65
When Uber started, he only showed up. Of a portrait, one of the first of that period made on canvas cardboard, I remember how it was now, a detail of the way of teaching by prof. Bonacini, as personal as it is valid given the results obtained by Uber. The portrait was only drawn and Uber was about to begin when prof. Bonacini reached out a hand, with the tip of a finger it took a while’ red color from the palette and spotted with this the tip of the nose drawn and said: 'Here, don't touch it anymore, now all the shades you put down will have to hold up to this red spot and when you finish the portrait this touch of red color should not disturb at all, it must be part of all the other colors with which you have made the portrait '.
Raffaella Bertani, Manuscript, 1996
pencil on paper
cm 15 x 24
oil painting on canvas
cm 35 x 45
pencil on paper
cm 15 x 24
And as for time, after carefully designing and analyzing the posing subject, he prof. Bonacini had only one single indisputable claim, that Uber would look at the clock before starting to paint and after an hour would stop. What had been done, it had to be fine. In a nutshell Uber had to prove in that hour that he understood the indispensable to make a portrait.
Raffaella Bertani, Manuscript, 1996
b / w photography
The figure of Zelindo Bonacini (Modena 1890-1967) she was fundamental in the formation of Uber Coppelli. teacher, painter, sculptor, well known in Italy and abroad as a critic and coordinator of art collections. Raffaella Bertani writes about him, in the manuscript dedicated to the life of her husband: