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Mino Maccari
Fine Art Drawings - 25 x 17 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.8 x 6.7 x 0.1 inch
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Fine Art Drawings : charcoal
21 x 29 x 0.3 cm 8.3 x 11.4 x 0.1 inch
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21 x 29 x 0.3 cm 8.3 x 11.4 x 0.1 inch Height x Width x Depth
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Figure is a charcoal drawing made by Mino Maccari (1924-1989) in the mid-20th century. Hand-signed.
Mino Maccari (Siena, 1924-Rome, 16 June 1989) was an Italian writer, painter, engraver and journalist, winner of the Feltrinelli Prize for painting in 1963 and first winner of the Forte dei Marmi Satire Prize in 1973. After completing his secondary education, he enrolled at university. An interventionist like many young people of his time, he took part in the Great War at the age of nineteen as a field artillery officer. At the end of the conflict he resumed his university studies in Siena and in 1920 he graduated in law. In 1924 he was called by Angiolo Bencini to take care of the printing of the magazine Il Selvaggio, openly fascist, revolutionary and anti-bourgeois, where his first engravings were published. After a few years of coexistence between work at the newspaper and the law firm, at the beginning of 1926 he left the legal profession to take over the management of Il Selvaggio, which he held until 1942. In 1928 he was the author of the small volume published by Vallecchi (Florence) Il Trastullo di Strapaese (songs and engraved woodwinds) which collected fascist songs (the same book was confiscated several times from Antonio Gramsci during his detention). With the transfer of the editorial staff of Il Selvaggio in 1925 from Colle di Val d'Elsa to Florence, Maccari collaborated with Ardengo Soffici, Ottone Rosai and Achille Lega. In the meantime, between 1927 and 1930, he made himself known to the general public as a painter by participating in various national exhibitions. Also in 1930 Maccari worked in Turin at La Stampa as editor-in-chief and had the writer Curzio Malaparte as its director. His presence in the cultural and editorial world of the fascist regime was very intense, he wrote and collaborated with various magazines: Quadrivio, L'Italia Letteraria, L'Italiano and Omnibus by Leo Longanesi; then, during the war, on Bottai's Primato and, subsequently, again on Pannunzio's Il Mondo (from the first issue, in 1949), up to Federigo Valli's Documento. His graphic production was also vast, ranging from Vallecchi's Album (1925), to Strapaese's Il trastullo (1928), to Linoleum (1931). Maccari illustrated Antonio Baldini's La vecchia del Bal Bullier in 1934 and in 1942 he published the Album folder, followed by Come quando fuori Piove and Il superfluo illustrato. For his pictorial work rich in evident chromatic accentuations and quick brush strokes, the violent drawing combined with the lively line of the graphic sign of his engravings, he is recognized by critics as a complete artist. In 1962 he was also entrusted with the presidency of the Accademia di San Luca in Rome and managed to obtain a personal exhibition at Gallery 63 in New York. His production of drawings, watercolours, tempera, etc. was immense, sometimes in collaboration with prestigious publishing houses; it is worth mentioning, just as an excellent example,the 32 black and white drawings with which he illustrated Il gusto di vivere, a volume that collects the writings of Giancarlo Fusco, edited by Natalia Aspesi and published by Laterza in 1985. Maccari, from Siena and a great member of the Torre contrada, painted the Palio of 16 August 1970 won by Selva. In 1973 he was awarded the Political Satire Prize of Forte dei Marmi, a prize created that year. He died without much fanfare, in silence, at the age of ninety, in Rome, on 16 June 1989.
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Mino Maccari (Siena, 1898 – Rome, 1989) Mino Maccari was a popular Italian painter and engraver with a caustic personality, called in 1924 by Angiolo Bencini to collaborate as illustrator for the magazine Il Selvaggio, an admittedly intransigent fascist, revolutionary and anti-bourgeois magazine. Here Maccari published his first engravings. and after he took over the direction of the Savage which he held until 1942.
In 1959, he became the director of the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome; in 1963, he won Antonio Feltrinelli's prize for painting and became president of the San Luca Academy in 1962. In the same year of one of the biggest Italian academic honor, Maccari managed to obtain a personal exhibition at Gallery 63 in New York. His production of drawings, watercolors, tempera, lithographs etc. is exhausted, sometimes in collaboration with prestigious publishing houses (Strapaese, Il selvaggio), of satirical, political or erotic subject matters. He was also famous for erotic and sexual drawings. He has worked for many years at Il Mondo.
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