Giovanni Omiccioli (25 February 1901 – 1 March 1975) was an Italian

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belonging to the modern movement of the ''

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(Roman School)'', with a dynamic paintwork representing

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games and

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scenes.

Biography

Having joined the

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movement, in 1928, Omiccioli collaborated especially with

Mario Mafai Mario Mafai (12 February 1902 – 31 March 1965) was an Italian painter. With his wife Antonietta Raphaël he founded the modern art movement called the Scuola Romana, or Roman school. Biography Mafai left school very early, preferring to att ...

and

Antonietta Raphael Antonietta Raphaël (1895 – 5 September 1975) was an Italian sculptor and painter of Jewish heritage and Lithuanian birth, who founded the ''Scuola Romana (Roman School)'' movement together with her husband Mario Mafai. She was an artist cha ...

, as well as with

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and Raffaele Frumenti. His pictorial activity started in 1934 and a few years afterwards, he exhibited work at the ''IV Mostra del Sindacato

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a'' (1937) within the

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circle. In the same period he held his personal expo at Apollo Gallery in

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. Omiccioli was also active in

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and, with

, Guttuso and

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, he created the first header of the Italian

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newspaper '' L’Unità'' in 1945, immediately after the Italian '' Liberazione''. During the same year he exhibited at the ''I Mostra dell'Arte'' against

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, promoted by this newspaper at the Gallery of

with catalogue by

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, presenting a dramatic political painting by the title ''La fucilazione di Bruno Buozzi'' ("The Fusillading of Bruno Buozzi"''). After winning an award at the

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Prize Convention, with ''Il Pastore con la capretta (Shepherd with small goat)'', Omiccioli exhibited at many important arts centres: especially noticeable are his anthological displays at the Hermitage of

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, his personal at the La Medusa Modern Gallery of

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, and in the 1950s his participation in exhibitions at

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, and

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. He also took part in a travelling exhibition around the

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n countries organised by the Italian Art Club, as well as displaying some paintings at the various Rome Quadriennales of 1955, 1959 e poi del 1966, and at the Venetian Biennales of 1952, 1954, 1956. In 1959 he also presents a religious painting on

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, ''Cristo crocifisso ( Crucified Christ)'', at the ''VIII Biennale d’Arte Sacra'' in

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. During the 1960s, Omiccioli exhibits at three Figurative Arts Reviews in

and

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(1961, 1963, 1965) and at the ''VI Biennale of Rome'' in 1968. Vaporous and tender, and yet always springing from an unchangeably intense love for nature and man, his palette of colours give a soft breath of light and a suggestive atmosphere to his whole artistic production.Cf. S. Favre, ''Civiltà Arte Sport'', 1969, p.477

Awards

Prize

Notes

Exhibitions

*''Acqueforti di Omiccioli'', Galleria Astrolabio,

1969 *''Omiccioli'',

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, 1978 *''Omiccioli'',

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, 1986.

Bibliography

* S. Favre, ''Civiltà Arte Sport'',

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, 1969, p. 477 * F. Ceriotto, ''Omiccioli'',

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, 1971, reprs. p. 43 * G. Pellegrini, ''Omiccioli'', cat. mostra, ''

'', 1977, cover and pp. 55–56 * C. Giacomozzi, ''Omiccioli'', cat. mostra,

, 1986, ripr. n.24, p. 32

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