Artists
Artists
Number of results: 143
Ardengo Soffici
Ardengo Soffici was born in Rignano sull’Arno in Florence in 1879 and died in Poggio a Caiano (Prato) in 1964. At the age of 20 he was in Paris, the first Italian intellectual (apart from Marinetti) to come into contact with the world of the Avant-Garde and international culture.
20th century AD
Armando Spadini
Armando Spadini was born in Florence in 1883 and died in Rome in 1925. He was self-taught, painting ceramics in the Doccia factory in Florence and he frequented the second generation of the Macchiaioli, animated by his great admiration for Fattori.
20th century AD
Arnaldo Pomodoro
Arnaldo Pomodoro was born in Morciano di Romagna in 1926. He studied architecture and, moving to Milan, made his artistic debut in jewellery together with his younger brother Giò. Their creations, in gold and silver, cast in the hollow of a cuttlebone, look back to Barbarian goldsmithery and suggest the bizarre and fantastic forms of Mirko.
20th century AD
Arturo Martini
Arturo Martini (Treviso 1889 – Milan 1947) first encountered modern art in 1909, when he met Gino Rossi, a leading figure of one of the first avant-garde experiments in Italy. In 1912 he was with Rossi again in Paris, where he met Modigliani and Boccioni. During those years Martini concentrated on a plastic art that was formally autonomous and simultaneously loaded with symbolism.
20th century AD
Baldassare Longoni
Baldassarre Longoni was born in Dizzasco d’Intelvi (near Como) in 1876 and he died in Milan in 1956. He belonged to the generation of Divisionists after Grubicy, Segantini, Previati, Morbelli and his homonym, Emilio Longoni, all born around the 1850s. The new wave was formed in the 1890s when Divisionism was already common and no longer a leading movement.
19th century AD
Bepi Romagnoni
Bepi Romangnoni was born in Milan in 1930 and died prematurely in 1964.
After attending the Scuola del Nudo and the Brera Academy, his work initially adhered to the acerbic and tormented ways of realism, which perhaps continued to carry within it memories of his involvement in “Corrente”.
20th century AD
Camillo Innocenti
Early in the course of his training Camillo Innocenti (Rome 1871–1961) was influenced by the style of Antonio Mancini, with its rich chromatic and luminist effects. During a sojourn in Spain in 1901, Innocenti’s love of sharp colours inspired him to complete a series of works drawn on local folklore and depicting toreros, bullfights, gypsies and cigarette girls.
20th century AD
Carla Accardi
Carla Accardi was born in Trapani in 1924. Towards the end of the 1940s she attended the cursus studiorum of the young Formalists and Marxists, becoming one of the first women in the twentieth century to successfully carve out a prestigious niche within the avant-garde movement.
20th century AD
Carlo Carrà
Carlo Carrà (Quargnento 1881 – Milan 1966) must be placed alongside Boccioni, Balla and De Chirico among the Italian protagonists of avant-garde art. He contributed to the birth of Futurism, produced a particular offspring of the Metaphysical painting inaugurated by De Chirico, and was a protagonist in the entire course of Italian painting between the wars as part of the “return to order” embodied from the early 1920s onwards in the Valori Plastici and Novecento movements.
20th century AD
Carlo Levi
Carlo Levi (Turin 1912 – Rome 1975) earned his degree in Medicine, but showed a precocious interest in painting. He studied under Casorati, but the time spent at the Parisian artistic centre pushed him in a completely different direction from that taken by his master.
20th century AD