''Valori plastici'' (meaning ''Plastic Values'' in English) was an Italian magazine published in
Rome
, established_title = Founded
, established_date = 753 BC
, founder = King Romulus (legendary)
, image_map = Map of comune of Rome (metropolitan city of Capital Rome, region Lazio, Italy).svg
, map_caption ...
in
Italian
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* Anything of, from, or related to the people of Italy over the centuries
** Italians, an ethnic group or simply a citizen of the Italian Republic or Italian Kingdom
** Italian language, a Romance language
*** Regional Ita ...
and
French. The magazines existed between 1918 and 1921.
History and profile
''Valori plastici'' was established in
Rome
, established_title = Founded
, established_date = 753 BC
, founder = King Romulus (legendary)
, image_map = Map of comune of Rome (metropolitan city of Capital Rome, region Lazio, Italy).svg
, map_caption ...
by the painter and art collector Mario Broglio and his wife
Edita Broglio
Edita Broglio (1886–1977) was a Latvian artist known for her paintings in the genre of magic realism.
She was born Edita Walterowna von Zur Muehlen on November 26, 1886 in the town of Smiltene, northeast of Riga. From 1908 to 1910 she studied ...
in 1918. He also edited the magazine which focused on
aesthetic
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ideals 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 ...
artwork. It supported the art movement ''
Return to order
The return to order (French: ''retour à l'ordre'') was a European art movement that followed the First World War, rejecting the extreme avant-garde art of the years up to 1918 and taking its inspiration from classical art instead. The movement w ...
'' so as to create a change of direction from the extreme
avant-garde
The avant-garde (; In 'advance guard' or ' vanguard', literally 'fore-guard') is a person or work that is experimental, radical, or unorthodox with respect to art, culture, or society.John Picchione, The New Avant-garde in Italy: Theoretical ...
art of the years up to 1918, taking its inspiration from traditional art instead.
The term "return to order" to describe this renewed interest in tradition is said to derive from ''Le rappel a l'ordre'', a book of essays by the poet and artist
Jean Cocteau
Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau (, , ; 5 July 1889 – 11 October 1963) was a French poet, playwright, novelist, designer, filmmaker, visual artist and critic. He was one of the foremost creatives of the su ...
published in 1926. The movement itself was a reaction to the War.
Cubism
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was abandoned even by its creators,
Braque
Georges Braque ( , ; 13 May 1882 – 31 August 1963) was a major 20th-century List of French artists, French painter, Collage, collagist, Drawing, draughtsman, printmaker and sculpture, sculptor. His most notable contributions were in his all ...
and
Picasso
Pablo Ruiz Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist and Scenic design, theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France. One of the most influential artists of the 20th ce ...
, and
Futurism
Futurism ( it, Futurismo, link=no) was an artistic and social movement that originated in Italy, and to a lesser extent in other countries, in the early 20th century. It emphasized dynamism, speed, technology, youth, violence, and objects such ...
, which had praised machinery, violence and war, was rejected by most of its followers. The return to order was associated with a
revival of classicism and realistic painting.
The magazine theorised the retrieval of national and
Italic values, as promoted by the cultural policies of
fascism
Fascism is a far-right, authoritarian, ultra-nationalist political ideology and movement,: "extreme militaristic nationalism, contempt for electoral democracy and political and cultural liberalism, a belief in natural social hierarchy an ...
, but also looking at wider horizons within
Europe
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and using a vivid artistic
dialectics with a return to a classic
figurative source.
Alberto Savinio, in the 1st issue of ''Valori plastici'' on 15 November 1918, announced a programme of total individualistic, anti-
futurist
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and anti-
Bolshevik
The Bolsheviks (russian: Большевики́, from большинство́ ''bol'shinstvó'', 'majority'),; derived from ''bol'shinstvó'' (большинство́), "majority", literally meaning "one of the majority". also known in English ...
restoration. In his first article of April–May 1919, entitled ''Anadioménon'', Savinio expounds the intellective and enigmatically atemporal intuition which animates the world of this new "
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 ...
classicism".
[L. Parkinson Zamora, ''Magical Realism: Theory, History, Community'', Duke University (1995)]
See also
*
List of magazines in Italy
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*
Return to order
The return to order (French: ''retour à l'ordre'') was a European art movement that followed the First World War, rejecting the extreme avant-garde art of the years up to 1918 and taking its inspiration from classical art instead. The movement w ...
*
Scuola Romana
Scuola romana or Scuola di via Cavour was a 20th-century art movement defined by a group of painters within Expressionism and active in Rome between 1928 and 1945, and with a second phase in the mid-1950s.
Birth of the movement
In November 192 ...
*
Novecento Italiano
Novecento Italiano () was an Italian artistic movement founded in Milan in 1922 to create an art based on the rhetoric of the fascism of Mussolini.
History
Novecento Italiano was founded by Anselmo Bucci (1887–1955), Leonardo Dudreville (1885 ...
*''
Corrente di Vita ''Corrente di Vita'' was a biweekly Italian culture magazine published between 1938 and 1940.
The Corrente Magazine
In 1938 artist Ernesto Treccani founded the magazine ''Vita Giovanile'' with the financial backing of his father, Senator Giovanni ...
''
*
Decadent movement
The Decadent movement (Fr. ''décadence'', “decay”) was a late-19th-century artistic and literary movement, centered in Western Europe, that followed an aesthetic ideology of excess and artificiality.
The Decadent movement first flourished ...
Notes
Bibliography
''Italy's Radical Return to Order'' on ''
The New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid ...
'' (26 December 1998)
''Il Ritorno all'Ordine'' on ''Fotoartearchitettura.it'', article by P. Campanella (2010)
* F. Negri Arnoldi, ''Storia dell'arte'',
Fratelli Fabbri,
Milan
Milan ( , , Lombard: ; it, Milano ) is a city in northern Italy, capital of Lombardy, and the second-most populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of about 1.4 million, while its metropolitan city h ...
(1989)
* R. De Fusco, ''Storia dell'arte contemporanea'',
Laterza,
Bari
Bari ( , ; nap, label= Barese, Bare ; lat, Barium) is the capital city of the Metropolitan City of Bari and of the Apulia region, on the Adriatic Sea, southern Italy. It is the second most important economic centre of mainland Southern Italy a ...
(1983)
*
G.C. Argan, ''L'arte moderna'', Sansoni,
Florence
Florence ( ; it, Firenze ) is a city in Central Italy and the capital city of the Tuscany region. It is the most populated city in Tuscany, with 383,083 inhabitants in 2016, and over 1,520,000 in its metropolitan area.Bilancio demografico an ...
(1970)
External links
Tate Gallery''International Herald Tribune'' su ''Scuolaromana.it''.
Retrieved 29 May 2011
Voce Glossario su ''Babelearte.it''.
Retrieved 29 May 2011
Da ''Valori Plastici'' a Corrente su ''Italica Rai''.
Retrieved 29 May 2011
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