Fausto Pirandello

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Fausto Calogero Pirandello
Fausto Pirandello (right) with his father Luigi (in the center) and his brother Stefano (left) in 1931
Born17 June 1899
Rome, Italy
Died30 November 1975 (1975-12-01) (aged 76)
Rome, Italy
NationalityItalian
Known forPainting
Notable workComposizione con nudi e pantofole gialle 1923

Donne con salamandra 1930
La Scala 1933
Il bagno 1934
La pioggia d'oro 1934
Crocifissione laica 1935

Spiaggia affollata 1939

Fausto Calogero Pirandello (17 June 1899 – 30 November 1975) was an Italian painter belonging to the modern movement of the

Nobel laureate Luigi Pirandello.[1]

Biography

After a short experience in Paris, where he met the most important artistic personalities of the time between 1920 and 1930, Pirandello entered the movement of

metaphysical taste.[3]

Pirandello's style goes from cubism, to tonalism, to realist-expressionist forms:[4] Important in this period was his participation to the activities of literary magazine "Corrente di Vita". Pirandello's work became an impressive testimony of a poet who interpreted in painting the analysing and psychological spirit of his father Luigi.[5]

Pirandello changed his style around the 1950s, re-absorbing influences from the cubists (i.e.,

Italian painting art, between "realism" and "neocubism", yet achieving through the deformations of an expressionist approach, original formal solutions in between abstraction and figuration[6] His paintwork sought a new definition, with a strong reference to a cubist syntax
in the colour tassellations and in those compositions where the narrative datum gradually loses importance.

He exhibited widely, during the whole course of his artistic life, with displays at the various

Roman Quadriennales, and personal expos at the Galleria della Cometa, Galleria del Secolo, Gallery of Rome. Among those after World War II, noticeable were his anthological exhibition at Ente Premi Roma in 1951, the persona of 1955 at the Catherine Viviano Gallery of New York City and the personal at "Nuova Pesa " of Rome
in 1968.

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Cf. C. Gian Ferrari, Fausto Pirandello, Rome 1991. See also Biographical Note, on Scuolaromana.it and photo with father Luigi. Accessed 31 May 2011
  2. ^ Cf. F. Negri Arnoldi, Storia dell'Arte Moderna, Milan 1990, pp. 616–620.
  3. ^ E.g., see images of Composizione con nudi e pantofole gialle, 1923 ("Composition with nudes and yellow slippers"), Donne con salamandra, 1930 ("Women with salamander"), Crocifissione laica, 1935 ("Lay Crucifixion"). See also the concomitant style of Emanuele Cavalli.
  4. expressionist painting" in a letter to writer Carlo Emilio Gadda, cf. Carlo Emilio Gadda
    , Lettere a Gianfranco Contini ("Letters to Contini"), 1934/1967, Milan, 1988, p.28.
  5. ^ Among his best known paintings of this phase, to be mentioned are Il bagno, 1934, La pioggia d'oro (Rain of gold), 1934, La Scala 1933; also noticeable his still lifes and a variant of The Bathers, in the cubist manner.
  6. ^ E.g., his Natura morta (Still life), 1955, Roma, private collection.
  7. Biennale
    room dedicated to Pirandello, with his La scala (The ladder) well visible in the background.

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External links

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