Figure Composistion 20th C Oil Painting Mario Sironi

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PLEASE NOTE WE NO LONGER SEND TO RUSSIA We accept all major Credit and Debit cards. All items sold by the Museum of Wales are authenticated by our curator and a certificate of authenticity is issued with each item sold. We try to be completely honest in our descriptions therefore if upon receipt of your purchase you find that the description was not correct we will refund your money in full. Please note that we have no relationship with Amgueddfa Cymru National Museum Wales. Figure Composition Original Oil Painting on Board after Mario Sironi (1885 – 1961) A wonderful modernist oil painting on board after highly regarded Italian painter, sculptor, illustrator, and designer, Mario Sironi. The painting is typical of much of Sironi's work and dates from the 20th century. The painting remains in fine condition with minor imperfections and marks in places and a light accreditation of dust and grime. The painting is presented in a wooden frame and bears a signature lower right. An interesting painting that would grace any home or collection. Mario Sironi (May 12, 1885 – August 13, 1961) was an Italian modernist artist who was active as a painter, sculptor, illustrator, and designer. His typically somber paintings are characterized by massive, immobile forms. He was born in Sassari on the island of Sardinia. His father was an engineer; his maternal grandfather was the architect and sculptor Ignazio Villa. Sironi spent his childhood in Rome. He embarked on the study of engineering at the University of Rome but quit after a nervous breakdown in 1903, one of many severe depressions that would recur throughout his life. Thereafter he decided to study painting, and began attending the Scuola Libera del Nudo at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma. There he met Giacomo Balla, who became "his first real teacher". Sironi also met Gino Severini and Umberto Boccioni, and like them he began painting in a Divisionist style under the guidance of Balla. By 1913, Balla, Boccioni and Severini had developed a new style—Futurism—which Sironi also adopted for a brief time. Sironi served in World War I as a member of the Lombard Volunteer Cyclists and Drivers. After the war, his version of Futurism gave way to an art of massive, immobile forms. In paintings such as La Lampada of 1919 (Pinateca di Brera, Milan), mannequins substitute for figures, as in the metaphysical paintings of Giorgio de Chirico and Carlo Carr� . In 1922, Sironi was one of the founders of the Novecento Italiano movement, which was part of the return to order in European art during the post-war period. Paintings such as Venere of 1921–1923 (Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna, Turin) and Solitudine ("Solitude", 1925; Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Rome), with their contained, geometric forms, bear some kinship to the neoclassicism evident in works produced at the same time by Picasso. Sironi's works of the late 1920s, many of which feature monumental, archaic figures of families in bare, mountainous landscapes, are "marked by a sense of humanity burdened with history ... [and] an almost Romanesque spirit of a solemn expressionism". The pure forms of his earlier work were replaced by a primitivist form of classicism, and his style became more painterly. A supporter of Mussolini, Sironi contributed a large number of cartoons—over 1700 in all—to Il Popolo d'Italia and La Rivista Illustrata del Popola d'Italia , the Fascist newspapers. Rejecting the art market and the concept of the easel painting, he became committed to the ideal of a fusion of decoration and architecture, as exemplified by Gothic cathedrals. He felt that the mural was the proper basis of a popular national art. The state commissioned from him several large-scale decorative works in the 1930s, such as the mural L'Italia fra le arti e le scienze (Italy Between the Arts and Sciences) of 1935, and he also contributed to the Exhibition of the Fascist Revolution in 1932. Although his esthetic of brutal monumentality represented the dominant style of Ital... read more

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