 | THE POOR ART IN TUSCANY
The origins of the decoration form for furnitures, called " poor Art " trace back us, often, to the Venice of the 1700's.
This working, used like a moderately-priced imitation of the enamelling, consisted in the application of small and very thin press of paper - cut out and coloured - on the wooden surfaces that was, later, covered with several transparent coats of paint since obtaining a smooth surface.
In Tuscany the art of furnitures did not use, in general, the decorations with the paper but it painted the surfaces of the objects with the same transparencies, so as to exalt the natural grains of the wood.
The craftsman had necessarily to privilege the functionality of furnitures but he did not limit enrichments of the shapes with frames or legs sometimes turned.
Such artistic expression, neglected for many times, has had its resurgence with a current risen in 1966
whose supporters produce works that are based on the association of materials that we use every day (wood, clothes, land, etc).
Among the most popular artists who have developed this forms of art, we remember: Mario and Marisa Merz, Luciano Fabro, Giuseppe Penone, Giovanni Anselmo, Alighiero Boetti, Gilberto Zorio, Jannis Kounellis, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Pier Paul Calzolari, Emilio Prini, Mario Ceroli. | 
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