José Pancetti

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José Pancetti (1955)

Giuseppe "José" Pancetti (June 18, 1902 – February 10, 1958) was a Brazilian

modernist painter
.

Biography

Born in

carpenter, moved with his wife and children to the state capital, São Paulo, where he hoped to find better working conditions. One year later, José and one of his sisters moved to Italy, to live under the care of an uncle and grandparents.[1]

In Italy

Arriving at the house of his uncle Casimiro, he started to study at the

Massa-Carrara.[2] But shortly thereafter, Italy became involved in World War I and Pancetti had to be moved to the countryside home of his grandparents in the town of Pietrasanta
.

There, he learned the craft of a carpenter in a small workshop. But he did not like the routine of the job and thus went to work, always briefly, in factories until the war ended.

Wishing to fix a better job for José, his uncle arranged for him to be a sailor in the Italian

Mediterranean, especially between the ports of Genoa and Alexandria
. But he later left the ship to go wandering the streets of Genoa, until someone took him to the Brazilian consulate, which provided for his return to Brazil.

Back in Brazil

Thus, on February 12, 1920, he landed in Santos. To survive, he worked in different places and different crafts until, in 1921, he moved to São Paulo again, where a businessman, also of Italian origin, offered him a job as a painter of walls and posters, which seems to have been his first contact with painting.[3]

In that same year, the painter Adolfo Fonzari offered to Pancetti an opportunity to assist him in decorating the house of another Italian in the coast of Guarujá.

Then, in 1922, Pancetti enlisted into the Brazilian Navy, where he was to remain for 24 years, until 1946.[4]

The discovery of painting

Aboard the Navy ships, Pancetti was given the task of painting hulls, walls, etc. He did this with such a zeal that his fame spread throughout the Navy until an admiral created a cadre of experts in the profession and appointed Pancetti as its first teacher of painting. But being a wall painter became boring and upon the humble sailor dawned a desire to put into paper what his eyes saw. And so Pancetti began to draw and to paint postcards with landscapes, seascapes and romantic sceneries, still quite clumsy, but which already showed his considerable artistic potential.[5]

During the

fine arts.[6]

In 1933, while walking through the

Campo de Santana in Rio de Janeiro, he observed a painter in his chores to capture the city's landscape, so rich in wonderful scenery to offer. The man seemed friendly and pleasant enough and this encouraged him to strike up a conversation by asking about the painting and confessing his desire to learn to paint. The artist was Giuseppe Gargaglione, who advised him to seek the Núcleo Bernardelli, a free painting school that operated in the building of the Rio de Janeiro School of Fine Arts. Pancetti accepted the suggestion and was admitted to the Núcleo, where his main advisor was painter Bruno Lechowski.[7]

At Núcleo Bernardelli

Two years later, in 1935, Pancetti married Anita Caruso, with whom he had two children.

His recognition as a painter began in 1933, with a participation at the Salão Nacional de Belas Artes (National Fine Arts Exhibition). He was invited again in 1934, 1936, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1947 and 1948. In 1941 he was awarded one of the prizes, which gave out an educational trip to Europe.[8]

His first solo exhibition took place 10 years later, only, in 1945, featuring more than 70 of his paintings. His first international exhibition took place in 1950 at the Venice Biennale. The following year, he was accepted at the first International Art Biennial of Art São Paulo, having participated also in the third biennial (1955).[9]

Death

Unfortunately, Pancetti, uncle of

rest cure. He died in 1958 in the Naval Hospital of Rio de Janeiro and was laid to rest in the São João Batista cemetery in the quarter of Botafogo.[10]

Assessment

Pancetti specialized in painting mostly

USD 80,000 to about 250,000 for his seascapes whilst a portrait or a still-life might only attract from less than 10,000 to less than 50,000.[12]

Quote

"Certa vez, não sei como, tive vontade de pintar aquilo que meus olhos viram na louca carreira do mar...".
("Once upon a time, I don't know why, I had a wish to paint everything that my eyes saw in the weird movement of the sea ...")

See also

References

  1. ^ "José Pancetti". Enciclopédia Itaú Cultural (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved March 25, 2024.
  2. ^ "Giuseppe Giannini Pancetti, o campineiro José Pancetti". Cidade e Cultura (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved April 17, 2024.
  3. ^ "José Pancetti". Escritório de Arte (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved April 17, 2024.
  4. ^ "O Apelo de Pancetti" (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved March 25, 2024.
  5. ^ "José Pancetti". Museum of Modern Art - Rio de Janeiro (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved March 25, 2024.
  6. ^ "Autorretrato com marreta". MASP - Museus of Modern Art of São Paulo (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved March 25, 2024.
  7. ^ "Pintor Aclamado Pancetti". Folha de São Paulo (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved March 25, 2024.
  8. ^ "Exposição Pancetti". Santander (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved April 17, 2024.
  9. ^ "Pancetti a Margem da Crítica". FAPESP (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved March 25, 2024.
  10. ^ "Artista: Giuseppe Gianini Pancetti - dito "José Pancetti"". Fundação Catarinense de Cultura (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved April 17, 2024.
  11. ^ "José Pancetti". Folha de São Paulo (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved April 17, 2024.
  12. ^ > Artistas > Cotações > José Pancetti, Bolsa de Arte (per 11 November 2017).
  • LEITE, José Roberto Teixeira. Dicionário Crítico da Pintura no Brasil : Rio de Janeiro, Artlivre, 1988.
  • GULLAR, Ferreira e outros. 150 Anos de Pintura Brasileira, Rio de Janeiro, Colorama, 1989.
  • LIMA, Medeiros. Pancetti : Rio de Janeiro, Ministério da Educação e Cultura/Serviço de Documentação, 1960.
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