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Renato Guttuso was a twentieth-century Italian painter and graphic artist. He is known as a brilliant representative of neo-realism.
Renato Guttuso was one of the founders of the "New Art Front". - a revolutionary artistic movement that emerged in Italy after World War II.
Guttuso's paintings have a pronounced social orientation, his work combines Expressionism, Cubism and Realism. He also designed sets and costumes for the theater and created illustrations for books.
Pino Pascali is an Italian sculptor, conceptual artist, graphic designer and stage designer, one of the forerunners of the art povera style.
He studied scenography at the Academy of Art in Rome, then worked in television as a designer and cameraman, and at the same time experimented with different materials.
Pascali began to create colorful works influenced by pop art in different styles and media. He used old cans, plastic brushes, fake fur, colored water, hay, mud... One of Pascali's most impressive works is Bridge (1968), an eight-meter bridge made of steel sponges.
Anatoly (Anatoli) Timofeevich Zverev was a Russian artist, a member of the non-conformist movement and a founder of Russian Expressionism in the 1960s. He spent all of his life in Moscow.
He did not have a solo show in Russia until shortly before his death in 1986 and his work was exhibited in small, underground galleries. Throughout his career he was harassed and persecuted by the Soviet authorities especially as his international success grew.
