GIO PONTI (1891 - 1979) 'let's make something very beautiful ' was the hallmark of of his search for the superlative. ponti's style was dominated by an exultant sense of the aesthetic. the intense colors - turquoise, red, green,ultramarine and gold - are those of his last period (between 1946 and 1950). mediterranean tonalities with sharp contrasts... intense, supersaturated.