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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.
Bruno Munari was an Italian painter, sculptor, graphic artist, designer, theorist, and educator.
He was called the orchestra man: Munari drew, illustrated, sculpted, photographed, designed advertisements, furniture and toys, wrote books, taught, made movies. Pablo Picasso called him the "new Leonardo."
As an inventor, Munari laid the foundations for many new kinds of visual art. For example, it was he who invented the suspended structures-mobiles that respond to the slightest fluctuations in the air, "useless machines" that are designed to distract the viewer from the everyday hustle and bustle.
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.
Marino Marini was an Italian sculptor and educator.
Salvatore Fiume is an Italian artist known for his diverse talents including painting, sculpture, ceramics and graphic design.
Salvatore Fiume's artistic style has evolved throughout his career, reflecting various influences. Fiume's paintings are characterised by vivid colours, dynamic brushwork and a sense of emotional intensity. He was also a skilled sculptor and created many sculptures in different materials.
Ennio Morlotti is an Italian abstractionist painter.
Morlotti studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence and at the Accademia di Brera in Milan. In 1947 he was one of the founders of the post-war New Front for Art (Fronte Nuovo delle Arti) movement.
Graham Vivian Sutherland was a prolific English artist. Notable for his paintings of abstract landscapes and for his portraits of public figures, Sutherland also worked in other media, including printmaking, tapestry and glass design.
Jan Lebenstein is a Polish artist.
Jan Lebenstein is a Polish artist.
Gérard Ernest Schneider is a Swiss and French artist, one of the creators of lyrical abstraction.
He graduated from the Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts de Paris. And in the post-war years, the art of Gerard Schneider played a pioneering role in the birth of a new form of abstraction. Schneider, together with other artists in Paris, proposed a new, radical form of abstraction and called it lyrical abstraction. From the mid-1940s large exhibitions were organized in Paris and later in Germany, bringing together the main representatives of the new style.
Thomas Zipp is a German artist, sculptor and installer who lives and works in Berlin.
He graduated from the Staedelschule in Frankfurt and the Slade School of Art in London. Zipp's work comes in the form of paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings and installations.
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.
Emilio Scanavino is an Italian painter and sculptor.
Scanavino's initial interest in figurative art and post-cubism later morphed and became closer to abstract expressionism.
George Grosz was a twentieth-century German painter, graphic artist, and cartoonist. In his work one can find features of various styles of avant-garde art, including Dadaism, Expressionism, and Futurism.
George Grosz drew in every style in a sharp-grotesque and satirical spirit, ridiculing the vices of society. The erotic theme, which occupied a prominent place in Gross's work, was executed in the same spirit.
Grosz devoted more than 20 years to teaching at the Art Students League of New York, and was elected an honorary member of the American and Berlin Academies for his outstanding services to the arts.
George Grosz was a twentieth-century German painter, graphic artist, and cartoonist. In his work one can find features of various styles of avant-garde art, including Dadaism, Expressionism, and Futurism.
George Grosz drew in every style in a sharp-grotesque and satirical spirit, ridiculing the vices of society. The erotic theme, which occupied a prominent place in Gross's work, was executed in the same spirit.
Grosz devoted more than 20 years to teaching at the Art Students League of New York, and was elected an honorary member of the American and Berlin Academies for his outstanding services to the arts.
