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Fausto Pirandello <\/strong>Italian painter<\/h2>\n

(Rome 1899-1975)<\/p>\n

Son of writer Luigi Pirandello and Antonietta Portolano.<\/p>\n

Education<\/h2>\n

After completing classical studies, Fausto Pirandello<\/strong> decided to devote himself to art. His father suggested sculpture, but the young man focused on drawing instead.<\/p>\n

Sigmund Lipinsky and the Deutsch-Romer Painters<\/h3>\n

Pirandello took classes with, and was profoundly influenced by, engraver Sigmund Lipinsky<\/strong>. The master introduced him to the graphic art of the Deutsch-Romer Painters whose unique painstaking rendering of anatomical details fascinated and even sometimes exasperated him.<\/p>\n

In 1920 he attended the Scuola Libera del Nudo<\/em> figure-drawing school.<\/p>\n

The theme of the body: Bathers<\/h2>\n

For Fausto Pirandello<\/strong> the human body was central, and he used expressive drawing to portray it in his youthful self-portraits, while in the 1930s he began focusing more on color, especially for rendering skin tones.<\/p>\n

In 1922 he began attending Felice Carena’s painting school <\/strong>in Rome and Anticoli Corrado.<\/strong><\/p>\n

His classmates included Emanuele Cavalli<\/a> and Giuseppe Capogrossi<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He debuted at the III Biennale di Roma in 1925 with his work Bathers, a subject he returned to obsessively for the next 50 years.<\/p>\n

In 1926 he showed at the first of several Venice Biennales, where for at least three decades critics would mention him as one of the most interesting and original artists.<\/p>\n

Paris<\/strong><\/p>\n

In 1928 he went to Paris where he married Pompilia d’Aprile, a model from Anticoli Corrado, and their first son Pierluigi (1928-2018) was born that same year.<\/p>\n

In Paris, Fausto Pirandello studied the paintings of the Italiens de Paris <\/em><\/a>, the \u00c9cole de Paris, and the Surrealists.<\/em> He was also dazzled by the art of Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque<\/a><\/strong>, who influenced his most mature work.<\/p>\n

Paris is where he came to terms with both art and modernity.<\/p>\n

In 1929 he had his first solo show at the Galerie Vildrac 11 on the Rue de Seine in Paris.<\/p>\n

While his still lifes and figures of those years mainly reflect the impact of Braque, they are also strongly individual.<\/p>\n

The works are tonal, sensual, and dramatic with a sense of immateriality and spare, familiar subjects.<\/p>\n

After a stop in Berlin and an exhibition at the Bakum Gallery in Vienna<\/em>, he returned to Rome in 1930 where he joined the artists of the Rinnovamento<\/em> (Renewal) who opposed “Novecentismo” (20th-century cultural tendencies).<\/p>\n

Rome<\/strong><\/p>\n

Pirandello exhibited at the 1930 Sindacale d’Arte with his Interno di mattino <\/em>(Morning Interior).<\/p>\n

The following year he had his first solo show at the Galleria di Roma<\/a> <\/em>\u00a0curated by critic Pietro Maria Bardi.<\/p>\n

\"Ritratto
Ritratto di Lietta ( Lietta’s portrait)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In the ensuing years, he created some of his best works like Interno di mattino<\/em> and Scala<\/em> (Stairs), which was shown at the 1934 Venice Biennale and is now in the Gualino Collection.<\/p>\n

At the 1935 Quadriennale, he had a solo show of 17 works.<\/p>\n

The Roman School<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Artistic maturity<\/strong><\/h3>\n

In the mid-1930s, Fausto Pirandello reached a new maturity as an artist. He married the <\/a>tonalism of the Roman School<\/strong> with an entirely personal approach to the figure and mixed references to classical painting (from Pompeii to the Early Renaissance) with the international 20th-century modernity of the great avant-garde artists.<\/p>\n

In 1938 he exhibited a series of drawings at the Galleria della Cometa.<\/p>\n

The war years 1939-1945<\/strong><\/h3>\n

He spent the dark years of World War II between Anticoli Corrado and Rome, where he stayed at\u00a0 Villa Medici. Despite the difficulties, it was a time of great inspiration for him.<\/p>\n

During the postwar period, he was skeptical of the contemporary art movements coming from the United States.<\/p>\n

In 1942 he showed at the Galleria di Roma and the Galleria Ettore Gian Ferrari in Milan.<\/p>\n

\"Fausto
Bambini, 1942<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Fausto Pirandello and the postwar period<\/strong><\/h2>\n

He met art critic Lionello Venturi and showed at the Galleria Art Club.<\/p>\n

His work became more coherent in its exploration of certain cubist art <\/strong>themes. His colors became more vibrant, his forms became more deconstructed and geometric, and the narrative became less important.<\/p>\n

The 1950s were a period of fervent creativity for Fausto Pirandello.<\/p>\n

He was in solo and group shows in Italy and abroad and Italian critics finally began to recognize his key role in contemporary art.<\/p>\n

In 1951 the Palazzo Barberini in Rome held a show of his most important works. In 1955 and 1963 he had two important shows in New York City.<\/p>\n

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Failing to win a hoped-for award at the 1956 Biennale threw him into crisis, and for a time he forced himself to move into abstraction, though he never completely abandoned references to objective reality.<\/p>\n

He gradually returned to figurative work in the 1960s, with an expressiveness that was now entirely personal.<\/p>\n

Toward the end of his life, poor health forced him to gradually give up oil painting in favor of works on paper, especially pastels.<\/p>\n

He died in Rome on November 30, 1975.<\/p>\n

A year later, the Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna in Rome<\/em> dedicated the first major retrospective to him.<\/p>\n

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