Litography by Ardengo Soffici - Haystack and cypresses,1962

Features

Haystack and cypresses,1962

Artist: Ardengo Soffici (1879-1964)

Artwork title: Pagliaio e cipressi

Age: 20th Century / 1901 - 2000

Subject: Landscape

Artistic technique: Printing

Technical specification: Lithography

Description : Pagliaio e cipressi

Colored litography. Artist proof. It is signed in pencil in the bottom right corner. Ardengo Soffici was born in the florentine province, he got close to the artistic world while he was working in a lawyer's office, he got to know a small group of young artists attending the Accademia delle Arti and the Scuola del Nudo where Giovanni Fattori and Telemaco Signorini were teaching. Soffici started painting, later on he became a self-taught writer. He lived in Paris where he entered the world of illustration and the book industry: he worked with a number of magazines both as a writer and as an illustrator, taking part in the disputes among materialists, spiritualists, romantics, classicists, and modernists in the artistic scene, broadening his views. He was close to the Futuristic movement even though he often argued with its exponents, changing his position towards the movement more than once. The artwork is presented in frame.

Frame Size (cm):
Height: 68
Width: 49
Depth: 2

Artwork dimensions (cm):
Height: 39
Width: 30,5

Additional Information

Artist: Ardengo Soffici (1879-1964)

Writer and painter born in Rignano sull'Arno in 1879, Ardengo Soffici left school early to freely study painting; from 1903 to 1907 he lived in Paris; back in Italy, he was one of the main collaborators of the Voce and founded in 1913, with G. Papini, Lacerba; an interventionist and fighter in the 1915-18 war, he was a collaborator, from its foundation, with the Popolo d'Italia, and a staunch supporter of fascism; in 1939 he was appointed Academician of Italy. His first activity was as an art critic, intended to demolish the usurped famines and to illustrate or enhance some of the major personalities of French impressionism and post-impressionism. Soffici passed through various avant-garde experiences, from Futurism to Cubism, gradually becoming an ardent advocate of them, to then fall back, after the war, on traditional positions. Even as a writer and poet Soffici found in his impressions, memories, landscapes, quick sketches and portraits his congenial measure of lyrical fragmentist, in love, despite a certain pessimism, with life and nature and inclined to "place words like the painter colors". S.'s pictorial production corresponds to that singular position, which he assumed in the literary and critical field, of non-conformism, never drastic, however, with respect to tradition. Cézanne is, among the masters of Paris, the one whose teaching was for him the most fruitful, so much so that it resurfaces from time to time in his best paintings.

Age: 20th Century / 1901 - 2000

20th Century / 1901 - 2000

Subject: Landscape

Artistic technique: Printing

La stampa è un processo per la produzione di testi e immagini, tipicamente mediante l'impiego dell'inchiostro su carta e di una pressa da stampa. Spesso viene svolto come processo industriale su larga scala ed è una parte essenziale dell'editoria.

Technical specification: Lithography

Lithography is a technique of mechanical reproduction of images. The procedure was invented in 1796 by the German Alois Senefelder using a stone of the quarries of barbecuing and leisure activities, a small town close to Munich. Initially called "chemical printing on stone", and assumed very soon the name of "lithographic art" or, more simply, of lithography.