Il timone
| Reference: | S42303 |
| Author | Adolfo DE CAROLIS |
| Year: | 1908 |
| Measures: | 190 x 135 mm |
€280.00
| Reference: | S42303 |
| Author | Adolfo DE CAROLIS |
| Year: | 1908 |
| Measures: | 190 x 135 mm |
€280.00
Description
Woodcut, 1908, printed from two blocks.
Excellent impression, printed on ivory paper, wide margins, good condition.
De Carolis was an artistic polymath, working as a painter (in particular of murals), interior designer, decorator, xylographer (wood engraver), illustrator and photographer, and is probably the best known exponent of Art Nouveau in Italy.
His talent and originality was quickly recognised by two of the greatest Italian writers and poets of the day, Gabriele D'Annunzio and Giovanni Pascoli, and he became their preferred illustrator. Among his most popular works were many illustrations for Gabriele d'Annunzio's novels (Il Notturno, La figlia di Jorio) and Giovanni Pascoli‘s books of poems.
In the first decade of the 1900s, De Carolis devoted a great deal of attention to the evocation of popular themes, linked in particular to representations of seascapes, as this print testifies. The use of more colors and therefore a greater number of woods is well suited to the liveliness of these subjects. After joining in '96 the Roman group In arte libertas, created by the landscape painter Nino Costa, from 1901 he taught ornament in the academy in Florence of the Renaissance masters, of the "terrible" Michelangelo, of Böcklin of the Isle of the Dead. He began to decorate books for D'Annunzio and Pascoli and since 1903 elaborates friezes and articles for the magazine "Leonardo" founded with Papini and Prezzolini.
Among the luxuriant figurations for the Francesca da Rimini (1902), the rusticane of The daughter of Iorio (1904), the lapidarie of the Nocturne of the "Vate" (1917-21), the prints marinaresche express an autonomous poetic. Il varo, L'argano, Il timone, La foce, Le arche - woodcuts made between 1904 and 1908, while the first avant-garde phenomena were exploding in Europe - denote a contemplative lyricism caught up in the symbolist stagnation that characterized the Italian situation at the beginning of the century. But beyond the conventional latent meanings, the manifest ones open - while adhering to the aesthetic fervor of Japanism fin-de-siècle - an ethnographic discourse that becomes more and more urgent, aimed at documenting the unique heritage that the "new leveling civilization" is annihilating. The appeal of 1920 (L'arte popolare, in "La Fionda", Rome) received an enthusiastic response, stimulating a sensitivity that in 1923 led to the establishment of the Royal Museum of Italian Ethnography, since 1956 the National Museum of Popular Arts and Traditions.
Adolfo DE CAROLIS (Montefiore dell’Aso 1874 – Roma 1928)
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Adolfo de Carolis (1874 - 1926), was born in Montefiore dell’Aso on the 6th of January 1874.
In 1892 he moved to Rome and was accepted as a member of the exclusive society ‘In Arte Libertas’ (Freedom in Art’) which had been founded by his close friend Giovanni (‘Nino’) Costa. This society opposed official styles promoted by the academies and influential art critics of the day and espoused the politics, philosophy and aesthetics of the British Pre-Raphaelite movement.
The main figures in the British movement were William Morris, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Edward Burne-Jones and Walter Crane. These groups were also almost certainly involved with the Freemasons, and much of the symbolism in their work have been identified as Masonic.
De Carolis exhibited work at the In Arte Libertas annual exhibition right up to 1901.
De Carolis was an artistic polymath, working as a painter (in particular of murals), interior designer, decorator, xylographer (wood engraver), illustrator and photographer, and is probably the best known exponent of Art Nouveau in Italy.
His talent and originality was quickly recognised by two of the greatest Italian writers and poets of the day, Gabriele D'Annunzio and Giovanni Pascoli, and he became their preferred illustrator. Among his most popular works were many illustrations for Gabriele d'Annunzio's novels (Il Notturno, La figlia di Jorio) and Giovanni Pascoli‘s books of poems.
In 1908 his work was described by a panel of judges in Bologna as ‘magnificent, full of evocative fervour, rich in imagination, and secure in the unity of the whole work’. In the backgrounds of many of his paintings it is possible to recognise the typical landscape of le Marche, which he loved so much.
As well as his major works, in his later years he also designed bank notes, theatrical sets, posters, calendars, postcards, advertisements and even product labels. He also wrote essays on art and, from 1922, worked as a teacher at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome. After world war 1 he was employed by the Ministry of War to design medals and certificates for war heroes.
He died in Rome on the 7th of February 1928.
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Adolfo DE CAROLIS (Montefiore dell’Aso 1874 – Roma 1928)
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Adolfo de Carolis (1874 - 1926), was born in Montefiore dell’Aso on the 6th of January 1874.
In 1892 he moved to Rome and was accepted as a member of the exclusive society ‘In Arte Libertas’ (Freedom in Art’) which had been founded by his close friend Giovanni (‘Nino’) Costa. This society opposed official styles promoted by the academies and influential art critics of the day and espoused the politics, philosophy and aesthetics of the British Pre-Raphaelite movement.
The main figures in the British movement were William Morris, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Edward Burne-Jones and Walter Crane. These groups were also almost certainly involved with the Freemasons, and much of the symbolism in their work have been identified as Masonic.
De Carolis exhibited work at the In Arte Libertas annual exhibition right up to 1901.
De Carolis was an artistic polymath, working as a painter (in particular of murals), interior designer, decorator, xylographer (wood engraver), illustrator and photographer, and is probably the best known exponent of Art Nouveau in Italy.
His talent and originality was quickly recognised by two of the greatest Italian writers and poets of the day, Gabriele D'Annunzio and Giovanni Pascoli, and he became their preferred illustrator. Among his most popular works were many illustrations for Gabriele d'Annunzio's novels (Il Notturno, La figlia di Jorio) and Giovanni Pascoli‘s books of poems.
In 1908 his work was described by a panel of judges in Bologna as ‘magnificent, full of evocative fervour, rich in imagination, and secure in the unity of the whole work’. In the backgrounds of many of his paintings it is possible to recognise the typical landscape of le Marche, which he loved so much.
As well as his major works, in his later years he also designed bank notes, theatrical sets, posters, calendars, postcards, advertisements and even product labels. He also wrote essays on art and, from 1922, worked as a teacher at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome. After world war 1 he was employed by the Ministry of War to design medals and certificates for war heroes.
He died in Rome on the 7th of February 1928.
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