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Aeropittura
Aeropittura (''Aeropainting'') was a major expression of the second generation of Italian Futurism, from 1929 through the early 1940s. The technology and excitement of flight, directly experienced by most aeropainters,Osborn, Bob, ''Tullio Crali: the Ultimate Futurist Aeropainter'' offered aeroplanes and as new subject matter. Aeropainting was varied in subject matter and treatment, including realism (especially in works of propaganda), abstraction, dynamism, quiet Umbrian landscapes, portraits of [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benedetta Cappa
Benedetta Cappa (14 August 1897 – 15 May 1977) was an Italian futurist artist who has had retrospectives at the Walker Art Center and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Her work fits within the second phase of Italian Futurism. Biography Benedetta was born in Rome, the second of five children. Her mother, Amalia Cappa, was a numerologist and believed in the properties of alphabetic letters and gave her four sons names that begin with the letter A and her only daughter, Benedetta, a name that began with B. Her mother was a cultured woman and a Protestant. Her parents were rigid, but affectionate in her upbringing. Cappa’s father, Innocenzo Cappa, was an official of the Ministry of Railways and later an officer in the Italian army. He died after returning from World War I, a tragic event that impacted her so deeply that she described her emotional and psychological state as a “broken core”. Her brothers Alberto and Arturo, a historian and a journalist, also had ties to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barbara (painter)
Olga Biglieri Scurto, also known as Barbara (Mortara, Lombardy, Mortara, 15 March 1915 – Rome, 10 January 2002) was an Italian Futurist painter and aviator. She was one of three women involved with the movement and in particular with Aeropittura. (The others being Marisa Mori and Benedetta Cappa). Life Biglieri was born in Mortara, Lombardy on 15 March 1915. She grew up in the countryside around Novara, where her father owned a farm. She started to paint at the age of eleven and also trained to be a pilot. After learning how to glide, she took a proper pilot license at the Aeroclub di Cameri at only 16 of ages. Biglieri became associated with Futurism when Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, who was the movement's founder, saw her paintings by chance in a shop window."Barbara (Olga Biglieri) 150anni.it, Retrieved 31 January 2017< ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Futurism
Futurism ( it, Futurismo, link=no) was an Art movement, artistic and social movement that originated in Italy, and to a lesser extent in other countries, in the early 20th century. It emphasized dynamism, speed, technology, youth, violence, and objects such as the car, the airplane, and the industrial city. Its key figures included the Italians Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Umberto Boccioni, Carlo Carrà, Fortunato Depero, Gino Severini, Giacomo Balla, and Luigi Russolo. Italian Futurism glorified modernity and according to its doctrine, aimed to liberate Italy from the weight of its past. Important Futurist works included Marinetti's 1909 ''Manifesto of Futurism'', Boccioni's 1913 sculpture ''Unique Forms of Continuity in Space'', Balla's 1913–1914 painting ''Abstract Speed + Sound'', and Russolo's ''The Art of Noises'' (1913). Although Futurism was largely an Italian phenomenon, parallel movements emerged in Russia, where some Russian Futurism , Russian Futurists would later g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Italian Futurism
Futurism ( it, Futurismo, link=no) was an artistic and social movement that originated in Italy, and to a lesser extent in other countries, in the early 20th century. It emphasized dynamism, speed, technology, youth, violence, and objects such as the car, the airplane, and the industrial city. Its key figures included the Italians Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Umberto Boccioni, Carlo Carrà, Fortunato Depero, Gino Severini, Giacomo Balla, and Luigi Russolo. Italian Futurism glorified modernity and according to its doctrine, aimed to liberate Italy from the weight of its past. Important Futurist works included Marinetti's 1909 ''Manifesto of Futurism'', Boccioni's 1913 sculpture ''Unique Forms of Continuity in Space'', Balla's 1913–1914 painting ''Abstract Speed + Sound'', and Russolo's ''The Art of Noises'' (1913). Although Futurism was largely an Italian phenomenon, parallel movements emerged in Russia, where some Russian Futurists would later go on to found groups of their ow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sante Monachesi
Sante Monachesi (1910–1991), was an Italian painter belonging to the modern movement of the '' Scuola romana (Roman School)'' and founder in 1932 of the ''Movimento Futurista nelle Marche ( Futurist Movement of Marche)''. Life and career Monachesi studied at the '' Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia'' (Experimental film centre or Italian National film school) in Rome. In the 1930s he embraced Futurism with spiralist and diagonal shapes both in painting and in sculpture, experimenting with aluminium in a mobile light. An important representative of ''Aeropittura'' (Aeropainting), in 1936 he exhibited at Biennale di Venezia and in 1937 at the World Expo of Paris. Immediately after World War II, Monachesi did expressionist and fauve painting, also as a member of the '' Scuola Romana'', becoming part of the group of "Balduina" with David Grazioso and Ferdinando Bellorini, but it was especially in plastic sculpture that his research became innovative. He explored new ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fillìa
Fillìa (3 October 1904 – 10 February 1936) was the name adopted by Luigi Colombo, an Italian artist associated with the second generation of Futurism. Aside from painting, his works included interior design, architecture, furniture and decorative objects. Biography Fillìa was born in Revello, Piedmont. He established the Futurist movement in Turin in 1923 at the age of 19 with a group which included Nikolay Diulgheroff, Pippo Oriani, Enrico Alimandi, Franco Costa and the sculptor Mino Rosso. Fillìa quickly became the leader of the group and its principal theorist. He published the art reviews: ''Futurismo'' (''Futurism'') (1924), ''Ventrina Futurista'' (1927), ''La Città Futurista'' (''The Futurist City'') (1929), ''La Città Nuova'' (''The New City'') (1930-1934), and ''Stile Futurista'' (''Futurist Style'') (1934–1935) with Enrico Prampolini. His work in the mid-1920s shows the influence of Prampolini. After 1928, Fillìa's work shows increasing subjecti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marisa Mori
Marisa Mori (March 9, 1900 – March 6, 1985) was an Italian painter and printmaker. She was one of the few female artists in the Futurism movement. Early life and education Marisa Mori was born in Florence as Maria Luisa Lurini. Her father, Mario Lurini, was working for Fondiaria-Sai, an insurance company. Her mother, Edmea Bernini, was a distant descendant of sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini. In 1918 the family moved to Turin, where Marisa was encouraged to take up art by family friend and artist Leonardo Bistolfi. She enrolled in a private college founded and directed by Felice Casorati, attending from 1925 to 1931. In 1920 she married Mario Mori, a poet and journalist, and decided to adopt his surname. In 1922 their son, Franco, was born. In 1926 she exhibited her work in a group show at Fondazione Palazzo Bricherasio with other fellow students, including Nella Marchesini, Daphne Mabel Maugham, Paola Levi-Montalcini and Lalla Romano. Casorati's influence was very evide ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tullio Crali
Tullio Crali (6 December 1910, in Igalo – 5 August 2000, in Milan) was an Italian artist associated with Futurism. A self-taught painter, he was a late adherent to the movement, not joining until 1929. He is noted for realistic paintings that combine "speed, aerial mechanisation and the mechanics of aerial warfare",Osborn though in a long career he painted in other styles as well. Early life Crali was born in the Bay of Kotor on the coast of Montenegro. His family lived in Zara until 1922, when they moved to Gorizia. At the age of fifteen, while a student at the local technical institute, Crali discovered Futurism. He took up painting, influenced by Giacomo Balla and Enrico Prampolini. Career Aeropittura In 1928 Crali flew for the first time. His enthusiasm for flying and his experience as a pilot influenced his art. In 1929, through Sofronio Pocarini, he made contact with Marinetti, the founder of Futurism, and joined the movement. In the same year ''aeropittur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pippo Oriani
Pippo is the diminutive of the Italian names Filippo and Giuseppe, and it may refer to: People *Pippo Barzizza (1902–1994), Italian Maestro and composer * Pippo Baudo (born 1936), Italian television presenter *Pippo Caruso (1935–2018), Italian composer, conductor and music arranger * Pippo Civati (born 1975), Italian politician * Pippo Fava (1925–1984), Sicilian writer, investigative journalist, playwright and Antimafia activist who was killed by the Mafia *Pippo Franco (born 1940), Italian actor, comedian, television presenter and singer *Pippo Inzaghi, Italian former football player * Pippo Maniero (born 1972), Italian former football player *Pippo Pollina (born 1963), Italian singer-songwriter *Pippo Pozzato, Italian road racing cyclist *Pippo Psaila (born 1957), former Malta national football team coach and current Director of Sports of the Malta Olympic Committee *Pippo Tesauro, Italian painter of the Renaissance period *Pippo Torri, Lombard far-left politician *Giuseppe D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfredo Gauro Ambrosi "Aeroritratto Di Mussolini Aviatore"
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Ugo Pozzo
Ugo is the Italian form of Hugh, a widely used name of Germanic origin. Its diminutive form is Ugolino. It is also a Nigerian Igbo first name. It may refer to: People * Vgo (stonemason), medieval stonemason * Ugo Bassi, a Roman Catholic priest and Italian nationalist * Ugo Betti, Italian judge and author * Ugo Boncompagni, birth name of Pope Gregory XIII * Ugo Correani, Italian/German fashion designer * Ugo da Carpi, Italian printmaker * Ugo Ehiogu, English football player * Ugo Fano, Italian physicist * Ugo Gabrieli, Italian footballer * Ugo Giachery, Italian Bahá'í * Ugo Humbert, French tennis player * Ugo La Malfa, an Italian politician * Ugo Mattei, professor of international and comparative law at UC Hastings * Ugo Monye, English international rugby union player * Ugo Mulas, Italian photographer * Ugo Rondinone, Swiss-born artist * Ugo Sansonetti, Italian businessman and athlete * Ugo Tognazzi, Italian actor * Ugo Zagato, Italian automobile designer Other * Ugo, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tato (Guglielmo Sansoni)
Tato (died 510) was an early 6th century king of the Lombards. He was the son of Claffo and a king of the Lething Dynasty. According to Procopius, the Lombards were subject and paid tribute to the Heruli during his reign. In 508, he fought with King Rodulf of the Heruli, who was slain. This was a devastating blow to the Heruli and augmented the power of the Lombards. According to Paul the Deacon, the war started because Tato's daughter Rumetrada murdered Rodulf's brother. Tato was murdered by his nephew Wacho in 510. References *'' Origo Gentis Langobardorum'' *''Historia Langobardorum The ''History of the Lombards'' or the ''History of the Langobards'' ( la, Historia Langobardorum) is the chief work by Paul the Deacon, written in the late 8th century. This incomplete history in six books was written after 787 and at any rate n ...'' by Paul the Deacon *''Zur Geschichte der Langobarden'' by Dr. Ludwig Schmidt (Leipzig, 1885) External linksA translation of Historia Langob ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
