Bruce Lee Print

When back in 1996 I attended the first year of the Academy of Fine Arts in my city (Palermo, Sicily, Italy) I was convinced that I would learn drawing techniques from my teachers. Of course, they helped me a lot, just as fundamental was the confrontation with my peers in the painting class. But after some time I learned that my real teacher was the desire for a challenge that still drives me to draw. The challenge to confront myself without "any penalty discount" with the surprise in the eyes of those who looked at and possibly appreciated my drawings. And speaking of challenges, among my favorite characters is the master of all challenges, Bruce Lee. In this drawing, however, instead of emphasizing that certain anger that is often expressed in fighting films in a crude way and without "discounting the punishment" , I preferred to give light to the smile of this absolute icon who with his sweetness mixed with extraordinary humanity and irony makes this portrait become almost a good luck talisman.