A Research Into The Metaphor And Its Reference Of Piero Pizzi Cannella’s Paintings

Piero Pizzi Cannella is a famous Italian contemporary painter.His paintings are not simply realistic representations,but rely on cognition to strengthen subjective emotions and perceptions,making the pictures full of mystery.Much of it is attributable to the metaphorical nature of the work.He expresses his inner memory,personal spiritual world and experience perception by means of his cognition of metaphors,and gradually forms his own language characteristics in the exploration of metaphorical expressions,so that his works have strong artistic appeal.This article takes Piero Pizzi Cannella as the research object,starts with his paintings and the viewer’s intuitive feelings,and collects and analyzes works with metaphorical tendencies.The article first expounds the basic overview of the word "metaphor" and the expression of metaphorical thinking in painting;secondly,it makes a sort of change in Piero Pizzi Cannella’s artistic conception,and analyzes the emergence and development of metaphorical thinking in his paintings;The specific presentation of metaphors in Piero Pizzi Cannella’s paintings,combined with the background of the painter’s era,explores the metaphorical features in Piero Pizzi Cannella’s works from the four aspects of subject matter,symbolism,composition and color,and explores the artist’s personal emotions hidden behind the works.Through the analysis of creative practice,it expounds the inspiration and reference of the metaphor in Piero Pizzi Cannella’s painting to the author’s artistic creation.