Fausto Calogero Pirandello (17 June 1899 – 30 November 1975) was an Italian

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belonging to the modern movement of the ''

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(Roman School)''. He was the son of

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Luigi Pirandello Luigi Pirandello (; 28 June 1867 – 10 December 1936) was an Italian dramatist, novelist, poet, and short story writer whose greatest contributions were his plays. He was awarded the 1934 Nobel Prize in Literature for "his almost magical power ...

Biography

After a short experience in

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, where he met the most important artistic personalities of the time between 1920 and 1930, Pirandello entered the movement of

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, distinguishing himself for originality and solitary exploration. His painting tends towards a quotidian realism manifested at times in the more unpleasant and pitiless aspects of life, expressed through a dense and thorny pictorial matter. His vision is an intellectualist one, which however translates even the most brutal naturalist datum into a sort of magic realism with an archaic and

metaphysical Metaphysics is the branch of philosophy that studies the fundamental nature of reality, the first principles of being, identity and change, space and time, causality, necessity, and possibility. It includes questions about the nature of conscio ...

taste. Pirandello's style goes from

cubism Cubism is an early-20th-century avant-garde art movement that revolutionized European painting and sculpture, and inspired related movements in music, literature and architecture. In Cubist artwork, objects are analyzed, broken up and reassemble ...

, to

tonalism Tonalism was an artistic style that emerged in the 1880s when American artists began to paint landscape forms with an overall tone of colored atmosphere or mist. Between 1880 and 1915, dark, neutral hues such as gray, brown or blue, often domina ...

, to realist-expressionist forms: Important in this period was his participation to the activities of literary magazine "

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". Pirandello's work became an impressive testimony of a poet who interpreted in painting the analysing and psychological spirit of his father Luigi. Pirandello changed his style around the 1950s, re-absorbing influences from the cubists (i.e.,

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and

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), and thus living the troubled and difficult phase affecting the whole Italian painting art, between "

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" and "neocubism", yet achieving through the deformations of an

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approach, original formal solutions in between

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and figuration His paintwork sought a new definition, with a strong reference to a cubist

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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

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Cf., ''int. al.''
image of 1934

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room dedicated to Pirandello, with his ''La scala (The ladder)'' well visible in the background. at the Roman Quadriennales, and personal expos at the Galleria della Cometa, Galleria del Secolo, Gallery of Rome. Among those after

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, noticeable were his anthological exhibition at Ente Premi Roma in 1951, the persona of 1955 at the Catherine Viviano Gallery of

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and the personal at "Nuova Pesa " of

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in 1968.

Notes

Bibliography

*''Fausto Pirandello 1899–1975'', catalogue by G. Appella e G. Giuffrè, Macerata 1990 (with bibliography) *C. Gian Ferrari, ''Fausto Pirandello'',

1991 *'' Guttuso, Pirandello, Ziveri, Realismo a Rome 1938–1943'', catalogue by F. D'Amico, critical notes by F.R. Morelli,

1995 *''Fausto Pirandello'', catalogue by G. Gian Ferrari, with essays by M. Fagiolo, F. Matitti, F. Gualdoni, M. Quesada,

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1995 *M. Fagiolo Dell'Arco, ''

: pittura e scultura a

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dal 1919 al 1943'',

1986 *M. Fagiolo Dell'Arco, Valerio Rivosecchi, Emily Braun, ''

. Artisti tra le due guerre'',

1988 *''

'', catalogue by M.Fagiolo and V.Rivosecchi, with ed. by F.R. Morelli,

1988 *G. Castelfranco, D. Durbe, ''La

dal 1930 al 1945'',

1960 *''Roma sotto le stelle (Rome under the stars)'', catalogue by N. Vespignani, M. Fagiolo, V. Rivosecchi, ed. by I. Montesi,

1994 *General Catalogue of Galleria comunale d'arte moderna e contemporanea, ed. by G. Bonasegale,

1995

External links

Scheda dell'artista
on ''Scuolaromana.it''. Accessed 31 May 2011
Biographical entry
on ''Treccani.it''. Accessed 31 May 2011
Museum of Scuola RomanaOfficial Scuola Romana SiteGlossary entry
, article on ''RomaNotizie.it''. Accessed 26 May 2011 {{DEFAULTSORT:Pirandello, Fausto 1899 births 1975 deaths 20th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Modern painters People of Sicilian descent 20th-century Italian male artists

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