Giuseppe Ugo Caselli (5 July 1893 – 19 December 1976) was an Italian painter. Caselli was born in

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). When he was young, he was student of Felice Del Santo and Antonio Discovolo. In 1913, he became acquainted with Lorenzo Viani. During

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, Caselli was captured and interned in a concentration camp in

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. After that, he studied at the

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, at the ''"free school of the nude"''. His painting style is situated between the first divisionists expressions of the early twentieth century, and a personal expressionism, close to the Austrian groundbreaking movements, but also influenced by the poetry of his friend Viani, with his entire repertoire of characters suffering and desperate. With

aeropittura Aeropittura (''Aeropainting'') was a major expression of the second generation of Italian Futurism, from 1929 through the early 1940s. The technology and excitement of flight, directly experienced by most aeropainters,

(''"aeropainting"'') works, technique derived from

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, Caselli participated in 1933 in the ''Premio del Golfo'' (''Gulf Award''), organized by

Filippo Tommaso Marinetti Filippo Tommaso Emilio Marinetti (; 22 December 1876 – 2 December 1944) was an Italian poet, editor, art theorist, and founder of the Futurist movement. He was associated with the utopian and Symbolist artistic and literary community Abbaye d ...

. Being very linked to

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, Caselli dedicated his painting to portray the life of the city and the province, and specially, the life in the ''

Cinque Terre The Cinque Terre (; lij, Çinque Tære, meaning "Five Lands") is a coastal area within Liguria, in the northwest of Italy. It lies in the west of La Spezia Province, and comprises five villages: Monterosso al Mare, Vernazza, Corniglia, Manarola, ...

''.

Death

Caselli died in

, on 19 December 1976, aged 83.

External links

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