G. Migneco Watercolor on Paper Italy 1959 - Figure 1959
Features
Artist: Giuseppe Migneco (1908-1997)
Artwork title: Figura
Age: 20th Century / 1901 - 2000
Subject: Human Figures
Origin: Italy
Artistic technique: Painting
Technical specification: Watercolor
Description : Figura
Watercolor on paper. Signed and dated lower right. Giuseppe Migneco, originally from Messina but moved to Milan as a young man, was one of the major representatives, together with Aligi Sassu, Renato Birolli, Bruno Cassinari, Renato Guttuso, of the Corrente group open to the European artistic avant-gardes. In favor of a painting of social commitment, he investigates reality with a critical, objective, historical eye. His characters with hard, square faces, marked by hard work and rendered with bright and strong tones, recall his Sicily with violent and clear features, but also the social realism of Mexican muralists. His works travel the world. The work is presented in a frame.
Product Condition:
Product in good condition, with small signs of wear.
Frame Size (cm):
Height: 47
Width: 38
Depth: 5
Artwork dimensions (cm):
Height: 29
Width: 20
Additional Information
Artist: Giuseppe Migneco (1908-1997)
Born in Messina in 1903, after completing his classical studies in his hometown Giuseppe Migneco moved to Milan in 1931 where he began to study medicine. There he earns his living and begins his entry into the world of art by drawing sketches for the "Corriere dei Piccoli" and by retouching for the publisher Rizzoli. In this period he began his pictorial activity creating paintings with autobiographical contents. The turning point took place in 1934. Migneco comes into contact with Aligi Sassu, Renato Birolli, Raffaele De Grada from whom he is enchanted. In 1937 he was one of the founders of the "Corrente" movement which brings together artists from different cultural horizons. After the war Migneco refined his taste for "social realism" under the influence of Mexican wall painters. One of his admirers called him a “wood carver who carves with a brush”. In the fifties the fame, by now consolidated, consecrates Giuseppe Migneco among the masters of contemporary Italian art, he exhibits in the most prestigious national and foreign galleries: Gothenburg, Boston, Paris, Stuttgart, New York, Amsterdam, Hamburg and Zurich. He participates in 5 editions of the Venice International Art Exhibition and in 5 editions of the Rome Quadriennale. He died in Milan in 1997.
Age: 20th Century / 1901 - 2000
20th Century / 1901 - 2000
Subject: Human Figures
Artistic technique: Painting
La pittura è l'arte che consiste nell'applicare dei pigmenti a un supporto come la carta, la tela, la seta, la ceramica, il legno, il vetro o un muro. Essendo i pigmenti essenzialmente solidi, è necessario utilizzare un legante, che li porti a uno stadio liquido, più fluido o più denso, e un collante, che permetta l'adesione duratura al supporto. Chi dipinge è detto pittore o pittrice. Il risultato è un'immagine che, a seconda delle intenzioni dell'autore, esprime la sua percezione del mondo o una libera associazione di forme o un qualsiasi altro significato, a seconda della sua creatività, del suo gusto estetico e di quello della società di cui fa parte.
Technical specification: Watercolor
The watercolor or the watercolor is a painting technique that involves the use of pigments, finely ground and mixed with a binder, diluted in the water. The watercolor is a technique that is popular for its speed and for the easy portability of the materials, which have made it the technique of the excellence of those who paints and travelling in the open air. The support used for this technique is the paper that is preferably used with a high percentage of pure cotton as the long fiber of this plant do not change in contact with water. The paper that you buy commercially is measured in grams meter (weight of a sheet of 1 square meter). The preparation of the watercolor painting can be done according to three separate technical: 1) high level of overlapping, which, in addition to giving strength and tone to the same color, give the preparatory drawing, which is usually performed in light pencil, the necessary depth pictorial useful to the representation of the volumes, the shadows and the light; 2) painting wet-on-wet, i.e. the preparation of a coloured pigment to be made on the sheet of wet paper in the above so that the colors from spreading and flowing and giving you a look suffused the painting; 3)painting wet-on-dry, in which the pigment is laid after being dissolved with a sufficient amount of water to slide on the dry sheet. Other customers have searched: