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FIGURE 12: Paintings on canvas of modern artists that used acrylic
binders and varnishes.
Top, Riccardo Pierallini, “Festa del’uva a Mendrisio”, 40X60cm [21].
Bottom-left, Pierluigi Pusole, “Noi cannoni”, 1986, cm. 60x50 [22].
Bottom, rigth , Stefano Fioresi, “Medusa” [23].
Some significant examples of plastic objects satisfying the above criteria, thus forming part of
artifacts with cultural, scientific and historical interest, are hereafter presented and described.
Objects in plastics testifying the substitution process of traditional natural materials
Plastics formulation, due to their lover production costs, easier workability and higher rate of
production, larger design versatility and possibility to realize items aesthetically more agreeable and
light, at the beginning of the “Plastic Era”, were largely used for the production of artifacts of large
consume that at the times were made by means of traditional materials such as ivory, wood, glass
metals leather, etc..