Alfredo Volpi: biography and fundamental works

Alfredo Volpi (1896-1988) was two maiores nomes da Segunda Geração de Arte Moderna in Brazil and left as a legacy series of paintings of various styles with a special coloring - not by chance ele ficou conhecido as or "mestre das bandeirinhas ".

Eclectic and experimental, his work went through various phases, now reigning some of them.

Biography of Alfredo Volpi

Moving to or Brazil

Alfredo Foguebecca Volpi saw the world on April 14, 1896 in Lucca, Tuscany region, in Italy, but moved to Brazil (to the city of São Paulo) as one year and half from to or next to two countries, Giusepina and Ludovico.

A Volpi family has five filhos, Alfredo was or third of them.

In São Paulo Giusepina and Ludovico created a small trade of queijos and wines not Bairro do Cambuci and was definitely established - for Brazil that the painter passed to a greater part of his life.

Infância by Alfredo Volpi

When I was still little or young, I was enrolled in the Escola Profissional Masculina do Brás. Foi na institution that his artistic vocation began to emerge.

For twelve years he began to work and, as a dinheiro do first salario, he bought a box of watercolor.

Or start of the career

Alfredo, in 1911, took his first steps as a wall painter, adjusting the interior decorations of large mansions in São Paulo, painting over all painéis and murais.

I did not start the career or the artist was also a marceneiro, binder and embosser. Fazendo muitas paisagens, or rapacious logo passou for other supports such as madeira and fabric.

It was from 1914 that Volpi achieved a more authorial work, as an identity mark and development of a unique style.

A disclosure of the artist

Alfredo Volpi's first participation in a collective show that took place in 1925 - the exhibition was held in the Palácio das Indústrias de São Paulo.

In 1930, the painter was part of the Santa Helena Group alongside several artists, including Mário Zanini and Francisco Rebolo. The painters criavam overtudo from living models. O nome do group was given critical hair by Sérgio Milliet because the artists have alluded to a space in the Palacete Santa Helena, located in Praça da Sé.

The first individual exhibition of the artist took place in 1944, in São Paulo, at Galeria Itá, when the artist was 48 years old. All the fabrics were sold, some of them were acquired by Mário de Andrade.

Professional reconditioning

In 1940 Volpi ganhou or IPHAN contest, or that he deu greater national visibility. Thirteen years later he levou or Prêmio de Melhor Painter Nacional da Bienal Internacional de São Paulo next to Di Cavalcanti.

In 1958 he was awarded or consecrated the Guggenheim Prize.

No Brazil, Alfredo also fez happened in 1962 and 1966 was elected or me as a painter of the country hair critical of art from Rio de Janeiro.

Pessoal Life

Alfredo Volpi married in 1942 with the garçonete Benedita da Conceição (named Judith). Or painter you have as the unique biological filha called Eugênia Maria. Or a painter adotou a series of filhos, biographers speculate that they have been dezenove.

To the death of the artist

An artist died 92 years old, in São Paulo, victim of a heart attack on May 28, 1988.

Works by Alfredo Volpi

Cathedral

Raised in 1973, to Cathedral uma geometric and rhythmic painting That carrega soft cores and the classic motif das bandeirinhas that characterize or seu work of him.

Interested not folklore and na popular culture, or theme of the bandeirinhas was reproduced by the artist in a series of works.

He laughed

To cloth He laughed She was raised in 1960 and, with simple traces and quase infantis, carries an image of one of the most important personagens do Brazilian folklore.

Uma curiosidade: or quadro acima, two most important of Volpi's collection, it has been lost, but it has been rediscovered.

Large festive facade

TO Great festive facade, Produced during the 1950s, it brings together two precious elements for Volpi's work: The facades and the characteristics of the bandeirinhas.

Marinha com Sereia

Marinha com Sereia It traces elements of the national culture and was produced in the 1940s. A fabric, measuring 54 cm by 73 cm, part of a Particular Collection.

Concrete composition

To work Concrete composition, Feita em tempera, face part of the MASP collection and item 35 by 73 cm in size. A cloth is one of the highest representatives gives concrete phase of the painter, that you started two years and fifty.

Or style of painting by Alfredo Volpi

A long year of his career as a painter, Alfredo Volpi went through a series of phases. Or artist começou to work initially with figurative works (portraits and landscapes) in a more classical style.

How to decorate the tempo she went to hurry up simplifying to form.

Importance of Itanhaém na painting by Volpi

A woman from Volpi ficou doente and needed to move to Itanhaém (São Paulo coast). From the visits that you visit with your wife during the weekends, the artist begins to change or your style of painting.

The artist passed on to make more luminous pictures, with a clearer, lighter and clearer light, and stopped painting in oil to paint in tempera.

Ace Volpi inks

Uma curiosidade: a tempera é a feita ink as an ovo and, uncomfortable as a cheiro, Volpi costumava uses a cravo na mistura.

As various phases of the artist

Depois de frequentar Itanhaém, Volpi turns aside to painting of observation and passes to fazer uma memory painting, which leaves you more free to carry out a series of aesthetic experiments.

How to pass the tempo or artist looking for inspiration in colonial art. O Fez painter a series of landscapes focusing especially on popular themes and making a lot of use of cores. Alfredo also created me, ao longo da carreira, a series of religious content.

From the fifties on, Volpi approached abstract art, using a completely different style from his initial design.

As facades

In 1953 he participated in the São Paulo Biennial and presented a series of facades, simplified, which would become his trademark.

Or artist tinha out of habit retake many times or fear that he will gostava as as facades and as bandeirinhas.

Concrete phase

Volpi was invited by a group of concretists to participate in an exhibition and, delighted with the style, developed some nessa linha paintings.

The artist has, therefore, a specific phase where he is free from all and any figuration. But, despite being affiliated with the group, Volpi remains with a distinctive traço that was to continue to make it apparent as a brush mark on canvas.

When the concretists look for a smooth fabric, with the lembranças of the human mark, Volpi fez questão de manter esse vestígio gives brushstroke present.

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