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Gerardo Dottori was an Italian futurist painter who also belonged to the Novecento group.
Influenced by Giacomo Balla, Gerardo Dottori joined the futurist movement in 1911-1912. His works were part of the art competitions at the 1932 Summer Olympics and the 1936 Summer Olympics.
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.
Enrico Prampolini was an Italian futurist painter and sculptor.
Enrico Prampolini published his manifesto Scenografia e coreografia futurista (Futuristic scenography and choreography) in 1915; in the same year he began working as a theatre artist and theatre costume designer.
In 1925 Enrico Prampolini was awarded an honorary diploma at the World Exhibition in Paris, the second most important award in the class of theatrical art.
When Mussolini came to power in Italy, Enrico Prampolini, like many other futurist artists, supported the new regime. In 1932 he, together with Gerardo Dottori and Mario Sironi, leads and implements in a futuristic style the decoration of the grandiose "Exhibition of the Fascist Revolution" (Mostra della Rivoluzione Fascista) in Rome.
Enrico Prampolini was an Italian futurist painter and sculptor.
Enrico Prampolini published his manifesto Scenografia e coreografia futurista (Futuristic scenography and choreography) in 1915; in the same year he began working as a theatre artist and theatre costume designer.
In 1925 Enrico Prampolini was awarded an honorary diploma at the World Exhibition in Paris, the second most important award in the class of theatrical art.
When Mussolini came to power in Italy, Enrico Prampolini, like many other futurist artists, supported the new regime. In 1932 he, together with Gerardo Dottori and Mario Sironi, leads and implements in a futuristic style the decoration of the grandiose "Exhibition of the Fascist Revolution" (Mostra della Rivoluzione Fascista) in Rome.
Alighiero Fabrizio Boetti, known as Alighiero e Boetti, was an Italian conceptual artist, considered to be a member of the art movement Arte Povera.
Perhaps best known is Boetti's series of large embroidered maps of the world, called simply Mappa.
