Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART
Preferred Title:
Dioscuris
Alternate Title:
I Dioscuri
Image View:
Overall view with frame
Creator:
Aligi Sassu (Italian painter, 1912-2000)
Location:
exhibition: Museo del Novecento (Milan, Lombardy, Italy)
Location Note:
Piazza Duomo, 8; on loan from the Crocevia Foundation
GPS:
45.463611 9.190278
Date:
1931 (creation)
Cultural Context:
Italian
Style Period:
Twentieth century
Work Type 1:
painting (visual work)
Classification:
Paintings
Material:
oil paint on canvas
Technique:
oil painting (technique)
Measurements:
100 cm (height) x 80 cm (width)
Subjects:
human figure; nude in art; Primativism
Description:
Born in Milan in 1912, Sassu started his artistic career at a very early age; already in 1927 he was exhibiting in a Futurist show at the Galleria Pesaro in Milan, while the following year he participated, at just 16 years old, in the Venice Biennale. In 1930 he moved past Futurism to Primativism, creating a series of male figures colored red, a deliberately anti-naturalistic choice. (Source: Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia. org/wiki/Main_Page)
Collection:
Archivision Adjunct Module C: World Art
Identifier:
7A1-SASSU-D-A01
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Dioscuris