Franco Rognoni

Pen on paper

Code :  ARTCON0000480

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Franco Rognoni

Pen on paper

Code :  ARTCON0000480

not available

Franco Rognoni - Pen on paper

Features

Pen on paper

Artist:  Franco Rognoni (1913-1999)

Age:  Contemporary

Subject:  Human Figures

Origin:  Italy

Artistic technique:  Drawing

Technical specification:  Pencil on Paper

Description

Franco Rognoni. Pen on paper, without the title. Signed lower right "Rognoni F pinxit." In frame with glass.

Product Condition:
Product in excellent condition that may show slight traces of wear and tear.

Frame Size (cm):
Height: 29
Width: 39

Artwork dimensions (cm):
Height: 17
Width: 25

Additional Information

Artist: Franco Rognoni (1913-1999)

Franco Rognoni, born in Milan on 20 September 1913, showed his passion for drawing and painting from a young age. He attended evening courses at the Castello Sforzesco Higher School of Art in Milan. His education, self-taught and characterized by an openness towards the new arts, experienced a turning point when he frequented the library of the art critic Raffaello Giolli who was the first to recognize his talent. Starting from 1949-1950 he began to exhibit for over thirty years for the Galleria dell'Annunciata in Milan. He forms friendships with artists and poets, such as Quasimodo and Gatto. Giovanni Botta commissioned him to illustrate some great literary masterpieces, which he created using the watercolor technique. The artist follows the developments of twentieth-century European art, but stays away from groups and debates, trying to develop a personal style. At the end of the world war, due to the atomic event, he experienced an existential crisis which he resolved by dedicating himself to illustration for publishing, political and customs drawing. In 1947 he began collaborating with the newspaper Avanti! and work as a set designer. His various experiences and above all the intense activity that came from collaboration with others in the theater and publishing, helped him escape from both existential and artistic solitude. His painting, which appeared dark, tormented, at times overloaded, becomes less obsessive, acquiring freer forms inspired by a fantastic vision reassured by ironic flashes where his unmistakable design arabesques the application of color obtaining a particular esprit de finesse which becomes the his figure. Rognoni died in Milan in 1999.

Age: Contemporary

Contemporary

Subject: Human Figures

Artistic technique: Drawing

Il disegno è il processo di tracciare segni su una superficie tramite l'applicazione di una pressione o il trascinamento di un apposito strumento sulla superficie. Gli strumenti sono: matite in grafite o colorate, penna, pennelli fini con inchiostro, pastelli a cera o carboncini; i supporti tradizionali più frequenti sono carta, cartoncino, tavola, muro, tela, rame, vetro.

Technical specification: Pencil on Paper

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