The Melancholy Elegance of Modern Art ItalyStories.com Amedeo Modigliani belongs to that rare group of artists whose legend almost threatens to eclipse the work itself. His face, his poverty, his illnesses, his turbulent life in Paris, his early death, and…
ItalyStories.com — Great Italian Artists Giorgio Morandi is one of those rare artists whose world appears small only until one begins to look closely. Bottles, jars, boxes, pitchers, a few flowers, the hills outside Bologna: these were the modest subjects…
ItalyStories.com — Great Italian Artists Umberto Boccioni lived only thirty-three years, yet in that short life he helped give visual form to one of the most explosive ideas in modern art: that the world had changed so radically that painting…
ItalyStories.com — Great Italian Artists Giorgio de Chirico created some of the most haunting images of modern art: empty squares under hard afternoon light, arcades stretching into silence, long shadows cast by unseen figures, classical statues standing beside trains, clocks,…
Matter, Fire and Modern Art ItalyStories.com — Great Italian Artists Alberto Burri was born in Città di Castello, Umbria, in 1915, and became one of the most radical Italian artists of the twentieth century. His work changed the meaning of…