Giuseppe Cominetti (1882–1930) was an Italian painter.

Biography

He was born in

Salasco Salasco is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Vercelli in the Italian region Piedmont, located about northeast of Turin and about west of Vercelli. The municipality of Salasco contains the ''frazione'' Selve, a typical ''cascina a co ...

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. His brother Gian Maria Cominetti (1884–1961) was a notable writer and screenwriter. He studied until 1898 in the Lyceum Massimo D'Azeglio in

Turin Turin ( , ; ; , then ) is a city and an important business and cultural centre in northern Italy. It is the capital city of Piedmont and of the Metropolitan City of Turin, and was the first Italian capital from 1861 to 1865. The city is main ...

. He received his first training at the Albertina Academy of

, but moved in 1902 to

Genoa Genoa ( ; ; ) is a city in and the capital of the Italian region of Liguria, and the sixth-largest city in Italy. As of 2025, 563,947 people live within the city's administrative limits. While its metropolitan city has 818,651 inhabitan ...

where he came into contact with

Plinio Nomellini Plinio Nomellini (6 August 1866, Livorno – 8 August 1943, Florence) was an Italian painter in the Divisionist style. Biography He was born to Coriolano Nomellini, a customs official, and his wife Cesira née Menocci.

and the work of Theophile-Alexandre Steinlen. He was part of the ''Grupo dei Nove'' and in 1907, he exhibited ''I conquistatori del sole'' at the Promotrice of Genoa. This painting was also displayed in 1909 at the '' Salon d'Automne'' of Paris. At this time, he moved and frequented the artistic circles of the

Montparnasse Montparnasse () is an area in the south of Paris, France, on the left bank of the river Seine, centred at the crossroads of the Boulevard du Montparnasse and the Rue de Rennes, between the Rue de Rennes and boulevard Raspail. It is split betwee ...

and

Montmartre Montmartre ( , , ) is a large hill in Paris's northern 18th arrondissement of Paris, 18th arrondissement. It is high and gives its name to the surrounding district, part of the Rive Droite, Right Bank. Montmartre is primarily known for its a ...

neighborhoods in Paris. His paintings blended

symbolist Symbolism or symbolist may refer to: *Symbol, any object or sign that represents an idea Arts *Artistic symbol, an element of a literary, visual, or other work of art that represents an idea ** Color symbolism, the use of colors within various c ...

subjects and

divisionist Divisionism, also called chromoluminarism, is the characteristic style in Neo-Impressionist painting defined by the separation of colors into individual dots or patches that interact optically..Homer, William I. ''Seurat and the Science of Pain ...

styles. From 1903 to 1912, he participated at the Promotrice of Genoa. In 1909, he moved to

Paris Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, largest city of France. With an estimated population of 2,048,472 residents in January 2025 in an area of more than , Paris is the List of ci ...

, and exhibited at the Salon d’Automne and he cosigned Marinetti's

Futurist Manifesto The ''Manifesto of Futurism'' ( Italian: ''Manifesto del Futurismo'') is a manifesto written by the Italian poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, published in 1909. In it, Marinetti expresses an artistic philosophy called Futurism, which rejected the ...

. His painting was influenced later by

Fauvism Fauvism ( ) is a style of painting and an art movement that emerged in France at the beginning of the 20th century. It was the style of (, ''the wild beasts''), a group of modern artists whose works emphasized painterly qualities and strong col ...

and

Futurism Futurism ( ) 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 ...

. He was influenced by the

Scapigliatura ''Scapigliatura'' () is the name of an artistic movement that developed in Italy after the Risorgimento period (1815–71). The movement included poets, writers, musicians, painters and sculptors. The term Scapigliatura is the Italian equivalent ...

painter

Gaetano Previati Gaetano Previati (31 August 185221 June 1920) was an Italian Symbolist painter in the Divisionist style and art theorist. Biography Study and early works Gaetano Previati was born into a moderately prosperous family and completed his first ...

. In 1908, he painted ''Matrimonio''; in 1910, ''Lussuria''; in 1913, ''Strada a Montmartre''; in 1914, ''Tango''; and in 1919, ''L’Electricité''.''L’Electricité'' is now in Museum Borgogna of

Vercelli Vercelli (; ) is a city and ''comune'' of 46,552 inhabitants (January 1, 2017) in the Province of Vercelli, Piedmont, northern Italy. One of the oldest urban sites in northern Italy, it was founded, according to most historians, around 600 BC. ...

. During the first World War, in which he had ardently supported the entry of Italy, he worked as a correspondent. Cominetti died in Rome in 1930.

References

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