PISA - The great autumn exhibition at Palazzo di Blu in Pisa, scheduled from 8 October to 26 February next, will be dedicated to the Macchiaioli.
Produced and organized by the Palazzo Blu Foundation and MondoMostre, with the contribution of the Pisa Foundation, curated by Francesca Dini, the exhibition 'I Macchiaioli' retraces the evolution and revolution of the Macchiaioli, which gave life to one of the most original avant-garde in Europe in the second half of the 19th century.
The exhibition brings together over 130 works, mostly from private collections, usually inaccessible, and from museums such as the Uffizi Galleries, the Museum of Science and Technology of Milan, the Modern Art Gallery of Genoa and the National Gallery of Modern Art of Rome.
The Macchiaioli movement, explained by Palazzo Blu, has become popular, reaching a wider audience, "over 50 years ago thanks to the now historic exhibition at Forte Belvedere in Florence: much has been said and represented about their art, without however, never be able to fully restore that international visibility that belongs to them, above all because of the competition with French Impressionism ".
The term representing the artistic movement, it is recalled, was coined in 1862 by a reviewer of the Gazzetta del Popolo,
that was how he defined those painters who around 1855 had given rise to an anti-academic renewal of Italian painting in the realist sense.
The meaning was derogatory and played on a particular double meaning: go into hiding (act stealthily, illegally).
The exhibition at Palazzo Blu, divided into 11 sections, tells the story of the adventure of a group of young progressive painters, from Tuscany and elsewhere, who, distancing themselves from the academic institution in which they trained in a short time, wrote "one of the most poetic and daring pages of the history of art not only in Italy ".
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meaning was derogatory and played on a particular double meaning: go into hiding (act stealthily, illegally).
The exhibition at Palazzo Blu, divided into 11 sections, tells the story of the adventure of a group of young progressive painters, from Tuscany and elsewhere, who, distancing themselves from the academic institution in which they trained in a short time, wrote "one of the most poetic and daring pages of the history of art not only in Italy ".
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meaning was derogatory and played on a particular double meaning: go into hiding (act stealthily, illegally).
The exhibition at Palazzo Blu, divided into 11 sections, tells the story of the adventure of a group of young progressive painters, from Tuscany and elsewhere, who, distancing themselves from the academic institution in which they trained in a short time, wrote "one of the most poetic and daring pages of the history of art not only in Italy ".
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