Orfeo Tamburi - View of the Seine under the obelisk of Luxor to Paris

Artist: Orfeo Tamburi (1910-1994)

Born in Jesi in 1910, thanks to a scholarship he moved to Rome at the age of eighteen, where he trained in the Roman School and from a very young age he took part in the artistic life of the city. In 1935 the artist went to Paris and discovered Cèzanne's painting, defining it as "the real turning point in my life as a painter". He passes from a style characterized by a lyrical, almost sentimental vision to a "more formally felt and rigorous", the shapes become more geometric, the color ranges are muted. Both in Italy and abroad the work of Tamburi is very successful, the artist participates in the most important international events such as La Biennale di Venezia and La Quadriennale di Roma. In the 1940s he moved to Paris where his painting was transformed by becoming more restless, more personal. The trip he made in 1957 to the United States has a strong influence in the definition of his style. Tamburi approaches informal research, reality is no longer rendered as a dispenser of certainties but as an expressive channel for the anxieties and doubts of a world (that of the postwar period) in crisis. The series "Le Finestre", "Le Saracinesche", "Le Porte Sbarrate", The Painted Walls "," Le Tavole "," Le Radici "," Le Crete "are the result of this linguistic experimentation. Tamburi died in 1994 in Ermont, where he had moved in the last years of his life.

Age: 20th Century / 1901 - 2000

20th Century / 1901 - 2000

Subject: Views/City Glimpses

Artistic technique: Drawing

Il disegno è il processo di tracciare segni su una superficie tramite l'applicazione di una pressione o il trascinamento di un apposito strumento sulla superficie. Gli strumenti sono: matite in grafite o colorate, penna, pennelli fini con inchiostro, pastelli a cera o carboncini; i supporti tradizionali più frequenti sono carta, cartoncino, tavola, muro, tela, rame, vetro.

Technical specification: Mixed Technique