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Birth
1894 (Modena, Italy)
Death
1956 (Rome, Italy)
Lived/Active
Italy
Often Known For
futurist abstract painting, aerial landscapes and figuration
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 Enrico Prampolini (20 April 1894, Modena – 17 June 1956, Rome) was an Italian Futurist painter, sculptor and scenographer. He assisted in the design of the Exhibition of the Fascist Revolution* and was (like Gerardo Dottori) active in Aeropainting* or visual images of aerial landscapes as subject matter.
He pursued a programme of abstract* and quasi-abstract painting, combined with a career in stage design. His Spatial-Landscape Construction (1919) is quasi-abstract with large flat areas in bold colours, predominantly red, orange, blue and dark green. His Simultaneous Landscape (1922) is totally abstract, with flat colours and no attempt to create perspective.
In his Umbrian Landscape (1929), produced in the year of the Aeropainting Manifesto, Prampolini returned to figuration, representing the hills of Umbria.
But by 1931 he had adopted "cosmic idealism", a bio-morphic abstractionism quite different from the works of the previous decade, for example in Pilot of the Infinite (1931) and Biological Apparition (1940).
Prampolini was an influence on Tullio Crali, an Italian futurist painter.
Source:
"Enrico Prampolini", Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enrico_Prampolini
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