Claudio Detto (born 28 August 1950, in
Milan
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) is an Italian painter of
contemporary art
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.
Biography
Born in
Milan
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on 28 August 1950, Detto felt led towards free drawing from an early age. He grew up as a self-taught painter, and made his debut in the mid-1970s with pictorial tributes dedicated to the great masters of the 20th century, such as
Giorgio Morandi
Giorgio Morandi (July 20, 1890 – June 18, 1964) was an Italian painter and printmaking, printmaker who specialized in still life. His paintings are noted for their tonal subtlety in depicting simple subjects, which were limited mainly to vases ...
,
Amedeo Modigliani
Amedeo Clemente Modigliani (, ; 12 July 1884 – 24 January 1920) was an Italian painter and sculptor who worked mainly in France. He is known for portraits and nudes in a modern style characterized by a surreal elongation of faces, necks, a ...
and
Giorgio de Chirico
Giuseppe Maria Alberto Giorgio de Chirico ( , ; 10 July 1888 – 20 November 1978) was an Italian
artist and writer born in Greece. In the years before World War I, he founded the '' scuola metafisica'' art movement, which profoundly influ ...
. In the 1990s, he also painted and collected works by important Italian artists. He came to informal art after experimenting with different, more figurative painting styles and after freeing himself from any stylistic scheme or cage, he changed the link with a defined image, and he moved on to informal painting. It expresses an apparently instinctive painting, in continuous research.
He has exhibited at the ART 3F exhibitions, Principality of Monaco, curated by Queen Art Studio Gallery, Cairo Editore Art Award, Milan, SaturArte National Contemporary Art Competition in Genova, New York City International Award, curated by Agora Gallery, White Space Chelsea New York, at the International City of Budapest Prize, Budapest Art Expo by the Pinter Gallery, Leonardo da Vinci International Prize, Palazzo Ximenes Panciatichi, Florence. His works are published in Art Now Edizioni Mondadori, in the Catalog of modern art "Italian artists from the early 1900s to today", Edizioni Giorgio Mondadori and in the Atlas of contemporary art Edizioni De Agostini. In 2020 he was included in the Enciclopedia d'arte italiana.
General sources
* Catalog, Artisti 2021, ''Annuario internazionale d'arte contemporanea'', Editore Art Now.
* Monograph, Detto Claudio: arte moderna – looking for emotions, 2019.
Monograph, Detto Claudio: arte moderna – looking for emotions, 2019.
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* Catalog of Modern Art No. 56, in Giovanni Faccenda, "The Italian Astist from the early twentieth century to today"(Gli Artisti Italiani dal Primo Novecento ad Oggi) Giorgio Mondadori, Milan, 2019.
* Catalog, Atlante dell'Arte Contemporanea, De Agostini editore.
* Catalog, PITTURA BAZART, Collana di Pittura, vol.19, pp. 15,16,17,18,19–26.
* Catalog, ''L'arte in quarantena'', Edizioni Giorgio Mondadori.
* Monograph, ''L'arte anni 20. Gli anni 20 di ieri, gli anni 20 di oggi'', edizione Associazione Nazionale Salvaguardia Belle Arti, 2021.
* Catalog of Modern Art No 57, in Giovanni Faccenda, "The Italian Artist from the early twentieth century to today"(Gli Artisti Italiani dal Primo Novecento ad Oggi), Giorgio Mondadori, Milan, 2021. .
* Monograph, Detto Claudio: Costant Balance, 2022. Editions of Italian Modern and Contemporary Art Archives.
References
External links
*
Biography on Artprice.com
Biography on Queen Art Studio Gallery
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20th-century Italian painters
Italian male painters
21st-century Italian painters
Italian contemporary artists
1950 births
Living people
20th-century Italian male artists
21st-century Italian male artists