Paolo Salvati (born 22 February 1939 in Rome – 24 June 2014 in Rome) was an Italian figurative artist,
painter, and
draftsman
A drafter (also draughtsman / draughtswoman in British and Commonwealth English, draftsman / draftswoman or drafting technician in American and Canadian English) is an engineering technician who makes detailed technical drawings or plans for ...
. His landscapes are the expression of poetic art, characterized by an intense chromatic tone as a metaphorical depiction of the inner world of man.
Biography
![Paolo Salvati - Piazza Navona](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cc/Paolo_Salvati_-_Piazza_Navona.JPG)
Paolo Salvati was born in
Rome
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on 22 February 1939, in a house on
Via Labicana
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.
Expressionist painter, from 1967 exhibited a series of works in
oil on canvas
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throughout cities in Sardinia such as
Cagliari,
Oristano
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,
Bosa
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,
Ghilarza
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Antonio Gramsci, political philosopher and founder of the Ita ...
,
Paulilatino
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Paulilatino borders the following municipalities: Abbasan ...
until 1969. Since 1970 he participated in exhibitions of plastic and figurative art in the church
Trinità dei Monti
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and in Galleria Colonna renamed
Galleria Alberto Sordi
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It was designed in the early 1900s by the architect Dario Carbone and constructed on the Via del Corso as Galleria ...
in Rome.
He painted subjects figment of the imagination, such as ''Pietra Blu'' ( en, Blue Stone) in 1973 and 1974, ''Sogni di Primavera d’Alta Montagna'' ( en, Spring Dreams in High Mountain) in 1974, ''d’Estate'' () in 1975, the paintings ''Alberi Blu'' () in 1980, and ''Montagna Gialla'' () in 1991; subsequently created a series called ''Fronde Rosse'' () in 1993, 1994, and 2000. He also realized
landscapes,
seascapes, and
portraits
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. He used the techniques colours oil on canvas,
gouache
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,
pastels,
acrylic
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, and personally prepared canvases and frames which were used in his works. From 1977 to 1993 he worked as a portrait painter in
Piazza Navona
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in Rome; he used pastels on paper, oil on canvas painting miniatures depicting Roman monuments and landscapes of fantasy, produced numerous portraits also oil on canvas.
Expert in designing and making frames on wooden base, research techniques to the preparation of adhesives or for the application of real gold and silver leaf. His passion for
guitar music
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concert lead him to engage in
lute making.
He became closer with painter and his maternal uncle
Gabriele Patriarca
Gabriele Patriarca (Rome, 10 July 1916 - Rome, 2 September 1988) was an Italian informal painter and member of the art movement Scuola Romana.
Biography
He studied at the ‘Accademia del Nudo’ in Rome in 1952. He grew up artistically within th ...
, and with Rinaldo Caressa (painter),
Roberto Venturoni, with whom he shared some of the exhibitions, such as
Cento Pittori via Margutta
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and paint-off demonstration. In the summer of 1993 he left Piazza Navona due to the encounters with a collector of works of art Don Agostino Chigi Albani della Rovere (1929–2002).
In the 1990 he won first prizes in different editions of paint-off: in December 1996 he received the prize Artitalia at the Exhibition of Contemporary Art in Galleria l’Agostiniana in Rome; in 1995 he exposed the painting ''Scogliera in Notturno'' ( en, Reef at Night) oil on canvas 50×60; in August 2000 he was awarded the first prize at the fourth edition of the competition of paint-off of Anticoli Corrado with a 50×60 oil on canvas painting depicting ''La Fonte Vecchia'' ( en, The Old/Ancient Fount/Spring); between November 2000 and January 2001 he performed at the Galleria Gesù e Maria in
Via del Corso
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in Rome, at the beginning with a solo exhibition then participated in the exhibition of painting and sculpture “Jubilee Events in time and in the present” organized in order to celebrate the closing of the
Great Jubilee
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. On 13 December 2005 is recognized illustrious citizen from the Lazio region.
In 2006 Salvati met the critic Andrea De Liberi and his biography appeared in the journal ''Cultura'' published by Istituto Europeo delle Politiche Culturali ed Ambientali. In July 2009 in
Trani
Trani () is a seaport of Apulia, in southern Italy, on the Adriatic Sea, by railway west-northwest of Bari. It is one of the capital cities of the Province of Barletta-Andria-Trani.
History
Overview
The city of ''Turenum'' appears for the fir ...
he knew the art critic Paolo Levi, then artistic director of the ''Catalogue of Modern Art'' Giorgio Mondadori, and participated in the Biennial of Contemporary Art, exhibition curated by
Giuseppe De Nittis
Giuseppe De Nittis (February 25, 1846 – August 21, 1884)Efrem Gisella Calingaert. "De Nittis, Giuseppe." Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press. Web. 9 Aug. 2013. was one of the most important Italian painters of the 19th c ...
foundation which takes place in rooms used for the exhibitions in
Castello Svevo
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Hist ...
. On 20 and 21 October 2012, the pilot Andrea Palma, during the trial and race in the national racetrack in
Monza, displayed a copy of a portrait painted by Salvati, a color print positioned on the bonnet of the
Ferrari 430
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.
On 27 December 2012, on a proposal from the Presidency of the Council of Ministers, he has been honoured with the title of
Knight
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of the
Order of Merit of the Italian Republic
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The highest-ranking ...
. In 2019 the Paolo Salvati Onlus association was legally established, which supports the memory of the artist and holds the Paolo Salvati Archive, for the updating of the general catalog of the works.
Gallery
File:Piazza Navona - olio su tavola - anno 1962 - di Paolo Salvati.jpg, Paolo Salvati - ''Piazza Navona'', 1962
File:Paolo Salvati, Albero Blu, 1980 - sezione per Serigrafia.jpg, Paolo Salvati - ''Albero blu'', 1980
File:Vaso di fiori, miniatura 1986 - olio su tavola di Paolo Salvati.jpg, Paolo Salvati - ''Vaso di fiori'', 1986
File:Piazza Navona 1990 ritratto da cartellone - di Paolo Salvati.jpg, Paolo Salvati - ''Ritratto'', 1990
File:Paolo Salvati - subjects figment of the imagination.JPG, Paolo Salvati - ''Subjects figment of the imagination''
Bibliography
* Catalog of Modern Art No. 45, Paul Levi, Daniela Brignone; Mario Guderzo; Lea Mattarella, "The Italian Astist from the early twentieth century to today” (Gli Artisti Italiani dal Primo Novecento ad Oggi), Giorgio Mondadori, Milan, 2009, pp. 176–358. .
* Catalog of Modern Art No. 46, Paul Levi, Daniela Brignone; Mario Guderzo; Lea Mattarella, "The Italian Artist from the early twentieth century to today" (Gli Artisti Italiani dal Primo Novecento ad Oggi), Giorgio Mondadori, Milan, 2010, pp. 192, 352–353. .
* Catalog of Modern Art No. 47, in Paul Levi, Daniela Brignone; Mario Guderzo; Lea Mattarella, "The Italian Astist from the early twentieth century to today"( Gli Artisti Italiani dal Primo Novecento ad Oggi) Giorgio Mondadori, Milan, 2011, pp. 192–379. .
* Catalog of Modern Art No 48, in Paul Levi Young Faccenda; Daniela Brignone; Mario Guderzo; Lea Mattarella, "The Italian Artist from the early twentieth century to today"(Gli Artisti Italiani dal Primo Novecento ad Oggi), Giorgio Mondadori, Milan, 2012, pp. 27, 392, 401–404. .
* Catalog, (Paolo Salvati 1939-2014 : geniale creazione visiva) Eredi Salvati, Roma, 2016.
* ''Via Margutta Storia della Strada degli Artisti e dei Cento Pittori'', in
Luigi Salvatori
Luigi Salvatori (born 25 October 1951 in Palestrina), Italian painter of contemporary art.
Biography
Born in Palestrina in the province of Rome on 25 October 1951, he comes from a family of painters, he is the grandson of the painters Marcell ...
, Eventi d'Arte Cento Pittori via Margutta, Roma, 2021.
*
Michela Ramadori, ''I dipinti raffiguranti la Pietra blu di Paolo Salvati, Ut pictura Poesis'', Editions of Italian Modern and Contemporary Art Archives,
Roma
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, 2021.
*
Alberto Moioli, ''Le marine di Paolo Salvati'', Editions of Italian Modern and Contemporary Art Archives,
Roma
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, 2022.
Paintings in museums
* Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Artists present at Anticoli between the 19th and 21st century of
Anticoli Corrado
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Anticoli Corrado borders the following municipalities: Mandela, Marano Equo, Rocca C ...
.
Website of the Museum of Modern Art in Anticoli Corrado: detail Artists present at Museum between the 19th and 21st centuries Salvati Paolo, Le stalle 2002, Olio su tela, pp.33
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See also
* Expressionism
* Anticoli Corrado
Anticoli Corrado ( Romanesco: ) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Rome in the Italian region Latium, located about northeast of Rome.
Anticoli Corrado borders the following municipalities: Mandela, Marano Equo, Rocca C ...
* Cento Pittori via Margutta
Associazione Cento Pittori via Margutta, (Rome 22 June 1970), is a cultural and historical association of painters that exhibits as a Cento Pittori via Margutta mainly in Rome, in via Margutta, whose exhibition origins date back to October 1953 ...
Notes
Other websites
*
Official website of Culture Lazio, Website of Culture, Arts and Sports of the Lazio Region
Official page
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Paolo Salvati, biography on Askart.com
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