cctm collettivo culturale tuttomondo Felice Casorati (Italia)
Felice Casorati (Novara, 4 dicembre 1883 – Torino, 1º marzo 1963) è stato un pittore, incisore e designer italiano.
“Vorrei saper proclamare la dolcezza di fissare sulla tela le anime estatiche e ferme, le cose mute e immobili, gli sguardi lunghi, i pensieri profondi e limpidi… la vita di gioia e non di vertigine, la vita di dolore e non di affanno. No, perché fuggire veloci in automobile, perché imitare il fulmine, la saetta, il lampo? Io vorrei invece adagiarmi nel più morbido letto e avere intorno a me, così a portata di mano, le cose più care, sempre, eternamente… Quale sincerità si cerca nell’arte? La sincerità esterna o la sincerità intima, interiore?”
La sua pittura, che prende spunto dal sogno e dalla tradizione figurativa della classicità rinascimentale italiana del Trecento e del Quattrocento, è stata avvicinata dai critici alla corrente artistica del cosiddetto realismo magico … continua a leggere su Wikipedia
opera: Felice Casorati, Ragazza sul tappeto rosso, Girl on the red carpet, 1912 – ubicazione: Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Gand
Felice Casorati (4 December 1883 – 1 March 1963) was an Italian painter, sculptor, and printmaker.
The paintings for which he is most noted include figure compositions, portraits and still lifes, which are often distinguished by unusual perspective effects.
Casorati was born in Novara. He showed an early passion for music, but abandoned his study of piano after a serious illness, and became interested in art. To please his mother he studied law at the University of Padua until 1906, but his ambition to be a painter was confirmed in 1907 when a painting of his was shown in the Venice Biennale. The works he produced in the early years of his career were naturalistic in style, but after 1910 the influence of the symbolists and particularly of Gustav Klimt turned him toward a more visionary approach. In 1915 he had a solo exhibition at the Rome Secession III, where he showed several paintings and the first of his sculptures in varnished terracotta. His military service in World War I began that year and lasted until his discharge from the army after the death of his father in 1917.
In 1918, “intrigued by the decadent atmosphere of Turin with its sinister views”, he settled there with his mother and two sisters. His works of the next decade typify, in their emphasis on geometry and formal clarity, the “return to order” then prevalent in the arts as a reaction to the war. Although many critics found his work cold, cerebral, and academic, Casorati achieved international recognition as a leading figure in this movement … keep on reading Wikipedia
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cctm collettivo culturale tuttomondo Felice Casorati (Italia)