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Renzo Vespignani (1924 - 26 April 2001)"Francis Bacon" (list of biographies), 2001,
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Vespignani, Renzo Italian illustrators 20th-century Italian painters 20th-century Italian male artists Italian male painters Italian contemporary artists 1924 births 2001 deaths Painters from Rome
Renzo Vespignani (1924 - 26 April 2001)"Francis Bacon" (list of biographies), 2001,
''KLEINOS edizione d'arte'' (Italian translated), webpage:. was an Italian painter, printmaker and illustrator. "Obituaries - Hiroshi Teshigahara, Renzo Vespignani" (news), Brant Publications, Inc., 2001, FindArticles, webpage:
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Vespignani illustrated the works of
Boccaccio
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, Kafka
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and T. S. Eliot, among others. In 1956, he co-founded the magazine '' Citta Aperta ("Open City")'' and in 1963, co-founded the group '' II Pro e II Contro'' (Pro and Con) for neorealism in figure art.
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Life and work
Renzo Vespignani was born inRome
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, Italy
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in 1924, and he grew up in a Roman working-class suburb named ''Portonaccio''. He began to paint during the difficult years of the German
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occupation of Rome, hiding himself at Lino Bianchi Barriviera’s residence.
His drawings in 1944 recorded the ravages of German-occupied Rome in realistic detail. Those images, often likened to German Expressionist works, were featured in his first solo exhibition at Rome's Galleria La Margherita in 1945.
Meanwhile, he collaborated as a designer with many political-literary reviews done as poetic documentaries, relating to the cinema of Rossellini Rossellini is a common Italian surname. Other spellings include: Rosselini.
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and Vittorio de Sica
Vittorio De Sica ( , ; 7 July 1901 – 13 November 1974) was an Italian film director and actor, a leading figure in the neorealist movement.
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After the war, Vespignani contributed illustrations to political and literary journals. At New York's Hugo Gallery, his works were introduced to the U.S. in 1948.
In 1956 he co-founded, with other intellectuals, the review '' Citta Aperta ("City Opened")'', a magazine concerning the city culture's problems. At this time, his work had begun to focus on life in the harsh neighborhoods of Rome
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's periphery, displaying a connection with the films and literature of Italian Neorealism
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In 1963, with the painters, Ferroni, Ennio Calabria
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, Giuseppe Guerreschi, Piero Guccione, Piero Guccione e Alberto Gianquinto and the art critics Dario Micacchi, Antonio Del Guercio and Morosini, he founded the group '' Il pro e il Contro'' (Pro and Con
''Pro and Con'' is a 1993 9 minute 16mm short animated film produced, directed and animated by Joanna Priestley and Joan Gratz using drawings on paper, pixillated hands and object animation. The "Pro" section of the film was written by Barbara C ...
), which immediately became a point of reference for the newborn neo-figures experiments. During the decade of the 1960s, Vespignani and the group sought to develop new critically and intellectually engaged figural art. Vespignani illustrated the works of Boccaccio
Giovanni Boccaccio (, , ; 16 June 1313 – 21 December 1375) was an Italian writer, poet, correspondent of Petrarch, and an important Renaissance humanist. Born in the town of Certaldo, he became so well known as a writer that he was some ...
, Kafka
Franz Kafka (3 July 1883 – 3 June 1924) was a German-speaking Bohemian novelist and short-story writer, widely regarded as one of the major figures of 20th-century literature. His work fuses elements of realism and the fantastic. It typi ...
and T. S. Eliot, among others.
Renzo Vespignani exhibited works across Italy and had participated in the Venice Biennale
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four times. A 1985 exhibition at the French Academy in Rome
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examined the rapport between Vespignani's work and that of the Neorealist poet and filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini
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.
After the 1970s, Vespignani rarely exhibited abroad, although two bodies of his work from the 1990s, ''Manhattan Transfer'' and ''An Afternoon in Chelsea'', had been inspired by visits to New York City
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Renzo Vespignani died on April 26, 2001, while undergoing surgery.
See also
* ExpressionismNotes
External links
* Obituary webpageObit-Vespignani
{{DEFAULTSORT:Vespignani, Renzo Italian illustrators 20th-century Italian painters 20th-century Italian male artists Italian male painters Italian contemporary artists 1924 births 2001 deaths Painters from Rome