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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text uncode_shortcode_id=”280545″]Domenico Morelli<\/strong> nasce a Napoli l\u20198 luglio 1823.<\/p>\n

I suoi genitori avrebbero desiderato per lui l’ordinazione sacerdotale.<\/p>\n

Gli studi<\/h2>\n

Fu indirizzato all\u2019arte da un primo apprendistato presso il pittore Ruocco, poi frequent\u00f2 l\u2019Accademia di Belle Arti di Napoli, dove ebbe come maestro di disegno don Costanzo Angelini e don Camillo Guerra per la pittura.
L\u2019insegnamento accademico per\u00f2 non lo escludeva da un certo interesse per la realt\u00e0, da cui i pi\u00f9 giovani si sentivano attratti.
Cos\u00ec che anch\u2019egli tent\u00f3, in un saggio scolastico la via battuta gi\u00e0, nell\u2019ambiente, da Filippo Palizzi<\/strong> (Vasto, 1818 \u2013 Napoli, 1899).<\/p>\n

“Era la prima volta che mi ingegnavo con ardore di studiare dal vero, armonizzando la luce ed il colore del fondo con la figura….Il ricordo degli studi esposti da Filippo Palizzi ci ammoniva che, per giungere anche a noi a farli, bisognava tenere altra via<\/em>.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Durante i moti del 1948 partecip\u00f2 alle azioni rivoluzionarie sulle barricate, fu ferito e per poco scamp\u00f2 alla fucilazione.<\/p>\n

Gli iconoclasti<\/h2>\n

Tornato all\u2019arte, dopo una serie di opere in cui \u00e9 sempre vivo il ricordo dell\u2019Accademia, seppur mitigato dal romanticismo dei soggetti, coglie il primo successo con Gli Iconoclasti<\/i> (1854) che fu ben accolto all\u2019Esposizione napoletana del 1855, sia dalla corrente accademica che dai giovani innovatori.<\/p>\n

Viaggio in Italia e in Europa<\/h2>\n

Persuaso per\u00f2, di non aver dato con la sua opera un vero contributo al rinnovamento, cerc\u00f2 di accostarsi alle correnti pi\u00f9 moderne dell\u2019arte, e viaggi\u00f2 a lungo in Italia ed in Europa.<\/p>\n

\"Domenico
Mater Purissima Domenico Morelli<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Parigi<\/h3>\n

A Parigi ebbe pi\u00f9 precisa sensazione di liberarsi completamente dei suoi modi:<\/p>\n

“Io prego…di pulirmi bene lo studio- chiede agli amici di Napoli- di bruciare tutte le carte disegnate e dipinte…Non voglio trovar nulla che mi ricordi la mia maniera passata<\/i>“.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In questa ansia di rinnovamento, per\u00f2, non viene mai meno nel suo principio che attribuisce all\u2019arte l\u2019ufficio di ” rappresentare figure e cose non viste, ma immaginate e vere ad un tempo<\/i>“: un\u2019affermazione che si lega alla poetica romantica e che prevede in chi l\u2019assume come fondamento del proprio operare, una formazione accademica.
La sua pittura con la maturit\u00e0 si affina nei mezzi e si scioglie in una maggiore spontaneit\u00e0.
Giustamente \u00e9 stato notato che la sua pittura si pu\u00f2 includere in “una sorte di drammaturgia romantico-religiosa”, mentre il posto ch\u2019egli occupa nella storia della nostra arte del diciannovesimo secolo, \u00e9 “accanto agli operisti ottocenteschi<\/i>” (Somar\u00e9).<\/p>\n

Fu nondimeno sincera la sua volont\u00e0 di rinnovare l\u2019arte, e valse a svegliare l\u2019ambiente napoletano alla modernit\u00e0, ch\u2019egli sent\u00ed come ricreazione dal vero per forza di fantasia: una posizione la quale, se da una parte non lo liber\u00f2 compiutamente dall’ accademismo, dall\u2019altra riusc\u00ec a sottrarlo al realismo crudo che impervers\u00f2 nella seconda met\u00e0 del secolo diciannovesimo.<\/p>\n

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