Italo Mus
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Italo Mus | |
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Born | Saint-Vincent | 4 April 1892
Nationality | Italian |
Education | Academy of Fine Arts in Turin |
Known for | Painting |
Awards | The first prize of Young Painters 1910 |
Italo Mus (4 April 1892 – 15 May 1967) was an
Early years and family
Italo Mus was born in Chaméran, in the municipality of
In 1910, the International Center for the Fine Arts in
Career
Although very committed to his native Aosta Valley, Mus spent short periods in 1913 working on
In 1932 Mus was responsible for the
In 1938 the art critic Guido Marangoni saw Mus’s works in his studio and was impressed enough to write an article in the art journal Perseo, describing him as a “highly talented painter.” For a time he worked in his studio at Saint-Vincent with Filippo De Pisis. In 1956 some of his paintings were shown in New York City and Buenos Aires.
In the mid-1960s, while still active, he fell victim to a serious disease which prevented him from continuing to work. Italo Mus died in
Work
Mus created about two thousand works: drawings, sketches, and paintings of subjects. For most of his life he used oil on canvas or panel. His activity consists of three clearly defined periods.
- First period: between 1920 and 1940 he created works that characterize the artist in his best years. He painted scenes of life in the Aosta Valley (interior scenes, haymaking, landscapes and dance).
- Second period: between 1941 and 1958, the style of the artist evolved, and his paintings became an excuse to make the color. The imagination takes precedence over reality and the artist also wanted to attract attention by using the technique of the effect of mold on absorbent paper.
- Third period: between 1959 and 1967, the artist returned to his roots with new drawings in ink and charcoal, and sketches for major works in public buildings in the valley. Mus revisited the subjects of his first period—haymaking scenes and interiors that represent a multitude of characters—with the same humanity, but with different characteristics from the paintings of the first period.
Prizes
His long and laborious work was rewarded by many prizes: the Prix Saint-Vincent (1922-1947-1949), the Prix de la Montagne (‘Prize of the Mountain’, Milan 1927), the Premio
In 1979 the director Gianpaolo Taddeini made a fictionalised version of Mus’s life, based on a text by Ugo Ronfani, for the RAI-Aosta Valley television station: A valley, a Painter: Italo Mus.
Selected works
- The Revolution clog(1953), oil on panel, Martigny in Switzerland Fair of Valais;
- Chickensdecent(1950), oil on canvas, XXV ((e)) Venice Biennale, Palais central;
- Notre-Dame de Paris(1947), oil on canvas, Paris, Galerie René Denis;
- Stia (1951), oil on canvas, Rome Quadrennial;
- Veduta del Cervino, (1930), oil on canvas
- Still Life con zucche, (1950), oil on canvas
- A Luge on a snowy bridge,(1941), oil on canvas
- The Fucina, (1934), oil on canvas
- Trofeo della Regina, (1940), oil on canvas
- Funghi e Cardi, (1938), oil on canvas
Bibliography
- New under the sun, Quart, 1987, an exhibition catalog Centre Saint-Bénin (Aosta), 19/12/1987-31/03/1988;
- See anthology Milan, 1991, Palais de Permanent 19/04/1991-19/05/1991;
- Centenary of the birth of Aosta, Quart, 1992, the company of Fine Arts in Turin 03/07/1992-03/03/1992;
- Interiors, Quart, 1995, catalogue of an exhibition at Saint-Laurent church in Aosta, 29/06/1995-03/09/1995.
Sources
- ^ Crivellari, Giulio (2012-10-30). "A Châtillon omaggio a Italo Mus". La Stampa. Retrieved 2016-03-13.
- (it) This article is partially or wholly derived from a translation of the Wikipedia article in Italian entitled Italo Mus