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 ARTURO MARTINI(Treviso 1889 - Milan 1947)
After training in Munich at the school of the German sculptor Adolf Hildebrand, Martini soon came into contact with the young Italian artists who were promoting a renewal in national art in the years prior to World War I. A temperamental artist, extremely sensitive to materials, Martini was a friend of Gino Rossi, with whom he traveled in 1912 to Paris, where he met Modigliani and Boccioni. His first sculptures show a provocatory archaicizing plastic orientation: severely two-dimensional, they frequently recur to polychrome effects. In the Twenties Martini Joined the general trend toward a return to tradition, distinguishing himself, however, for irony, agility and eclectic capacity to combine or reinterpret sources within a context, the Italian art world of the time, dominated by the hyperstylistic attitude of sculptors purposely dedicated to imitating classic archeological models.
(From "Italian Art" Edited by Gloria Fossi, Giunti).
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