Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART
Preferred Title:
Still Life: The Joiner's Bench
Alternate Title:
Natura morta: il banco del falegname
Image View:
Overall view without frame
Creator:
Ottone Rosai (Italian painter, 1895-1957)
Location:
repository: Brera Museum (Milan, Lombardy, Italy) 5093
Location Note:
Via Brera 28
GPS:
45.471944 9.188056
Date:
1914 (creation)
Cultural Context:
Italian
Style Period:
Futurist; Twentieth century
Work Type 1:
painting (visual work)
Work Type 2:
collage (visual work)
Classification:
Paintings
Material:
oil paint on canvasboard
Technique:
collage (technique); oil painting (technique)
Measurements:
47.5 cm (height) x 70 cm (width)
Subjects:
still life; typography or calligraphy
Description:
During the years of his training, Rosai was fascinated by French painting and by artists such as Courbet, Daumier, Cézanne and above all Corot, who was inspired by the works exhibited in his first solo exhibition of 1913. In the same year, however, he met Ardengo Soffici and became acquainted with the Futurist movement, of which he shared a brief phase with works such as this, from 1914, inspired by the collage technique, with the abundant use of fragments and scraps of printed paper. (Source: Brera Pinacoteca [website]; http://pinacotecabre ra.org/en/)
Collection:
Archivision Adjunct Module C: World Art
Identifier:
7A1-ROSAI-SLCB-A01
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Still Life: The Joiner's Bench