Fronte Nuovo delle Arti
Fronte Nuovo delle Arti was an Italian artist group. The group was founded in 1946 by the artists Bruno Cassinari , Renato Birolli , Renato Guttuso , Leoncillo Leonardi , Ennio Morlotti , Armando Pizzinato , Giuseppe Santomaso , Emilio Vedova , Alberto Viani and existed until 1952.
These artists had in common the Manifesto Manifesto di fondazione della Nuova Secessione Artistica Italiana (For a " New Secession in Italy ") on the initiative of Renato Birolli in 1946 Venice signed and thus a forerunner of delle Fronte Nuovo Arti artists movement Nuova Secessione Artistica Italiana founded.
The name Fronte Nuovo delle Arti ( Italian for: " New Front of the Arts ") was first used on the occasion of an exhibition of the participating artists in the " Galerie della Spiga " (" Gallery of the Ear ") in Milan . In addition to the signatories and members of the Nuova Secessione Artistica Italiana , the artists Antonio Corpora , Pericle Fazzini , Nino Franchina and Giulio Turcato joined the Fronte Nuovo delle Arti in Milan.
The hallmarks of the participating artists was abstract painting , which was also influenced by Orphism . The work of Pablo Picasso had another great influence on painting , especially the prismatic structure of the pictorial elements. The main representatives of Fronte Nuovo delle Arti were Renato Guttuso, Emilio Vedova and Alberto Viani.
In 1948, representatives of the group presented their works at the Venice Biennale . In 1952 the abstract artists left the group and founded the group of artists Gruppo degli Otto on the initiative of the art historian and art critic Lionello Venturi (1885–1961) . From then on, Renato Guttoso and Armando Pizzinato turned to expressive realism in their art .
Sources and literature
- T. Sauvage: Fronte Nuovo, 1957 - Pittura italiana del dopoguera. Milan 1957.
- G. Marchiori (Ed.): Catalog of the 24th Venice Biennale. Venice 1948.
- Guido Ballo: Italian Painting from Futurism to Today. Cologne 1958.