{"id":129089,"date":"2026-09-20T15:23:02","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T14:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/egidimadeinitaly.com\/?post_type=product&#038;p=129089"},"modified":"2026-09-20T17:55:36","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T16:55:36","slug":"franco-angeli-half-dollar-black-and-gold","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/egidimadeinitaly.com\/en\/negozio\/modern-art\/modern-paintings\/franco-angeli-half-dollar-black-and-gold\/","title":{"rendered":"Franco Angeli \u2013 Half Dollar, Black and Gold, 1966"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer\" dir=\"auto\" data-start=\"1945\" data-end=\"1995\">Half Dollar, a symbol in Franco Angeli\u2019s work<\/h4>\n<p dir=\"auto\" data-start=\"1997\" data-end=\"2266\">In Franco Angeli\u2019s work, images drawn from politics, history and contemporary society become pictorial material. Eagles, stars, political emblems, inscriptions and coins are removed from their original context and transformed into signs charged with memory and meaning.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\" data-start=\"2268\" data-end=\"2620\">In <em data-start=\"2271\" data-end=\"2284\">Half Dollar<\/em>, Angeli focuses the composition on the enlarged image of the American coin. A <strong data-start=\"2363\" data-end=\"2389\">large gold-toned eagle <\/strong>dominates the centre, surrounded by stars and the inscriptions <em data-start=\"2453\" data-end=\"2479\">United States of America<\/em> and <em data-start=\"2484\" data-end=\"2497\">Half Dollar<\/em>. Against the black ground, the eagle acquires an intense luminosity that reinforces the emblematic character of the image.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\" data-start=\"2622\" data-end=\"2893\">In this version of <em data-start=\"2641\" data-end=\"2654\">Half Dollar<\/em>, the relationship between the deep black background and the golden luminosity of the eagle heightens the ambiguity of the image: the symbol retains all its visual authority while simultaneously appearing distant, suspended and vulnerable.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\" data-start=\"2895\" data-end=\"3203\">The <em data-start=\"4883\" data-end=\"4896\">Half Dollar<\/em> motif assumed particular importance in Franco Angeli\u2019s work during the 1960s. In October <strong data-start=\"2995\" data-end=\"3003\">1966<\/strong>, he devoted the solo exhibition <em data-start=\"3036\" data-end=\"3071\"><strong data-start=\"3037\" data-end=\"3070\">America America (Half Dollar)<\/strong><\/em> at the <strong data-start=\"3079\" data-end=\"3112\">Galleria dell\u2019Ariete in Milan<\/strong> to this imagery, presenting large golden eagles and works centred on American iconography.<\/p>\n<h4 dir=\"auto\" data-start=\"3205\" data-end=\"3241\">Money transformed into an image<\/h4>\n<p dir=\"auto\" data-start=\"3243\" data-end=\"3468\">The coin is not represented merely as an everyday object. Instead, it becomes an <strong data-start=\"3324\" data-end=\"3388\">emblem of economic power and the American visual imagination<\/strong>, themes of particular relevance within the cultural climate of post-war Europe.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\" data-start=\"3470\" data-end=\"3712\">Angeli preserves the immediate force of the symbol while undermining its apparent stability. Softened contours, areas that seem to dissolve into the dark ground and a restricted chromatic range give the composition an almost spectral quality.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\" data-start=\"3714\" data-end=\"4014\">The image remains seductive, yet its meaning is unsettled. Money appears simultaneously powerful and fragile, material and elusive. In this way, Angeli transforms a universally recognisable object into an image that invites reflection on the authority assigned to the symbols of contemporary society.<\/p>\n<h4 dir=\"auto\" data-start=\"4016\" data-end=\"4070\">Franco Angeli and the Scuola di Piazza del Popolo<\/h4>\n<p dir=\"auto\" data-start=\"4072\" data-end=\"4271\">A central figure in Rome\u2019s post-war art scene, <a href=\"https:\/\/egidimadeinitaly.com\/en\/franco-angeli\/\"><strong data-start=\"846\" data-end=\"863\">Franco Angeli<\/strong> <\/a>developed, alongside Mario Schifano and Tano Festa, a distinctive visual language associated with the <a href=\"https:\/\/egidimadeinitaly.com\/en\/piazza-del-popolo-school\/\"><strong data-start=\"966\" data-end=\"994\">Piazza del Popolo School<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\" data-start=\"4273\" data-end=\"4540\">Although his work engaged with the international visual culture of the 1960s and with Pop Art, Angeli\u2019s approach remained markedly personal. Political, economic and historical symbols became vehicles through which he explored memory, ideology and structures of power.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\" data-start=\"4542\" data-end=\"4823\">Behind the apparent coolness and impersonality of these images lies a more restless and poetic dimension. In <em data-start=\"4651\" data-end=\"4664\">Half Dollar<\/em>, the severity of the black ground and the metallic luminosity of the central emblem intensify precisely this tension between attraction and critical distance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer\" dir=\"auto\" data-start=\"1239\" data-end=\"1371\"><strong data-start=\"1239\" data-end=\"1268\">Franco Angeli Half Dollar<\/strong> is a striking work from one of the most recognisable iconographic cycles in the Roman artist\u2019s career.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\" data-start=\"1373\" data-end=\"1687\">Against an intense black ground, the monumental image of the American half-dollar emerges, dominated by a <strong data-start=\"1479\" data-end=\"1505\">large gold-toned eagle<\/strong> and the lettering of the coin. Angeli removes this familiar symbol from its everyday function and transforms it into an enigmatic image of <strong data-start=\"1645\" data-end=\"1686\">money, power and contemporary society<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\" data-start=\"1689\" data-end=\"1852\">The contrast between the deep black background, the luminous gold-toned eagle and the silver-coloured border gives the work a commanding, almost heraldic presence.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\" data-start=\"1854\" data-end=\"1918\">Signed on the reverse. Stencil on canvas, 1966. 70 \u00d7 100 cm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":129074,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[6376,6415],"product_tag":[],"class_list":["post-129089","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-modern-art","product_cat-modern-paintings","first","instock","taxable","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-simple"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.4 (Yoast SEO v28.5) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Franco Angeli Half Dollar Black and Gold | 1966<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Franco Angeli Half Dollar, 1966, stencil on canvas in black and gold, 70 \u00d7 100 cm and signed on the reverse. 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