Word: carrara
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Paolo would rather go home to Carrara and get back to work. The son of a successful sculptor whose wife's family owns some marble quarries, Paolo has been drawing since he can remember. At five he was copying animals out of children's books, putting together weird composites, later ducked school to ramble around the countryside drawing whatever caught his fancy. He took no art lessons, shunned all advice. "He would never listen to me," says his father, Aldo Buttini. Instead, Paolo read art books and tramped through museums soaking up the masters' techniques...
...tried sculpture, turned out amazingly good busts of angelic children. But he soon tired of carving and went back to pen & ink drawings with single-minded attention. Outside art, his main pleasures are horseback riding and, latterly, whippeting around the Tuscan hills in a Fiat. Once during the war, Carrara was shelled and his family hid out for two months in a hillside cave. Paolo spent his time profitably, carving pictures on the walls, caveman style...
When he gets back to Carrara, Paolo Buttini plans to try a new medium. He thinks he is about ready to start working in oils. In about two years, Paolo thinks, "I will really have something to show people...