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| ARTURO MARTINI |
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Arturo Martini, Trevisan artist born in 1989,
will be remebered as innovator of the sculpture and pictorial language
for the first half of the 20th century and one of the most famous
sculptors from Veneto.
He stood out for his fighting temper and he contrasted the Accademia
and the scarce far-sightedness of authority.
Arturo Martini may be placed out all the moulds linked to classicism,
Art Nouveau and rationalism which was free any tie with the past
languages and it could stand for the revolution and thus the renewal.
His interests bound him to other painters and sculptors
from Veneto as Gino Rossi,
Bepi Fabiano, Guido Cacciapuoti and other.
His ideas and his behaviour were deliberately and instinctively
out any rule and thus they looked for emotions by recovery of experiences
coming from far cultures. |
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In 1938 Arturo Martini told that the 19th century
was drained away and after this the end of the World might come without
qualms and the artists of 20th century began as if it was happened.
Arturo Martini showed a work of sculpture at the art ehibition of
Ca Pesaro and he made a Monumento ai caduti far from the
rhetorics of many Italian towns; he did Figliol prodigo in
1925, it was considered his masterpiece by critics.
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| In 1929 Arturo Martini made Monumento ai Pionieri
d’America; this period is very important for him, official
tasks were given him both in Italy and abroad: in Rome, in Adis Abeba,
in Milan and in Genoa. He did Dama che nuota sott’acqua
in 1942, this work is characterized by a great expressive meaning
thus it is considered one of the best. |
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| Arturo Martini was interested in what help to communicate
emotions by art thus he looked for unceasingly some expressive materials
as baked clay, plaster, stone, polished marble, bronze and painting.
He worked in furnace to check his trials with enamels; he painted
in oils and he drawing without stopping or being satisfied with the
results. |
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| Arturo Martini taught in Monza and in
the last years of his life he taught in Venice care of the Accademia;
he died some year after the Second World War in 1947 in Treviso. |
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