Renato Marino Mazzacurati

Renato Marino Mazzacurati
Born 1907
Galliera, Italy
Died 1969
Parma, Italy
Nationality Italian
Education Scuola romana
Known for Painting, Sculpture
Notable work

Imperatori e Imperatrici (Emperors & Empresses)
Monumento al Partigiano (Monument to the Partisan)
Lottatori (Wrestlers)

Ritratto di Scipione (Portrait of Scipione)
Movement Contemporary
Patron(s) Roberto Longhi

Renato Marino Mazzacurati (1907-1969), was an Italian painter and sculptor belonging to the modern movement of the Scuola romana (Roman School), of eclectic styles and able within his career span to represent the artistic currents of Cubism, Expressionism, and Realism, thus showing a distinctive open mind towards Art and its multiple aspects. In fact, he believed that Art could sustain social functions.[1]

Biography

Moved to Rome in 1926, he befriended Scipione, Mario Mafai and Raphaël, creating with them an artistic movement called by Italian scholar Roberto Longhi the Scuola di via Cavour or Scuola Romana.[2]

In 1931 Mazzacurati went to Paris, where he became particularly interested in the works of Rodin, Matisse and Picasso, as both his pictorial production (between 1931–1935) and his sculptures show, with their expressionism that forces the physical structure (e.g., see Ritratto del conte N. (Portrait of Count N.), 1936) or deforms it into monstrously grotesque figures (e.g., see Imperatori e Imperatrici (Emperors & Empresses), 1942–1943). Subsequently, Mazzacurati tended towards a cruder realism, joining in 1947 the "Fronte Nuovo delle Arti". His other work include Monumento al Partigiano (Monumento to the Partisan) in Parma (1964) and the Monumento alle quattro giornate (Monument to the Four days of Naples, in Naples.[3]

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ Cf. F. Negri Arnoldi, Storia dell'Arte Moderna (History of Modern Art), Milan 1990. See also Biographical Notes, on Scuolaromana.it. Accessed 28/05/2011
  2. ↑ Between 1933 and 1934, Mazzacurati helped and supported Italian most famous Naïve painter, Antonio Ligabue.
  3. ↑ Among Mazzacurati's other work, to be noted are also Monumento ai caduti di tutte le guerre in Sansepolcro, and the mosaic of Saint Barbara in the eponymous Church of Saint Barbara, Colleferro. Cf. also F.N. Arnoldi, Storia dell'Arte Moderna, Milan (1990).

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