Word: casorati
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...onetime Futurist who has come back to Tuscany; Pirandello, son of the playwright; Carra, another Futurist who now paints slablike figure studies; Campigli, a respected abstractionist and fresco painter; Cagli, who uses with more talent than most the prevailing umbers, reds and sombre blues of the Italian school; Casorati, winner of this year's second prize at the Carnegie; the eminent metaphysical painter de Chirico and his funny brother Savinio...
Masterpieces at the Carnegie show in abstract or other methods of painting were conspicuously rare. Second prize ($600) was awarded for Woman Near a Table, a semi-nude against a clever perspective, done in sombre blues and browns by Italian Felice Casorati. Neither this nor the third prize ($500) winner, Family Portrait by young Josef Pieper of Düsseldorf, Germany, was distinguished by that finality of excellence which makes good critics stand long and stare. Nazi Pieper's painting, which this year won the State Prize for painting at the Prussian Academy of Fine Arts, seemed to many...
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