Filippo Giansanti

In Rome, Italy, I was drawing and painting since childhood. When I arrived in New York City with $50 in my pocket, I called a few advertising agencies and got my first job working in the Empire State building. I became a sought-after commercial artist working with Geoffrey Hayes, art director of well-known advertising stints such as his famed Absolute Vodka campaign. My collages of New York City in surrealistic postcards were published and sold by the Metropolitan museum in 1979. I translated my love for the Old Masters into watercolor portraits of their works. On the other hand, my love for surrealism expresses my present stage of introspection in digital works of Surrealistic and Abstract-Expressionistic art.
I was photographer Francesca Woodman's boyfriend at the time of her death and I introduce my photo of her as I fused it with my work.

Liceo Artistico in Rome, Italy. Further education on the job in New York City as a visualizer and storyboard artist in the aspects of commercial art and graphic design while working at top advertising agencies in the USA and in Europe.