Word: luigi
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Fausto Pirandello was in his ambitious teens when his famous playwright father counseled him to leave writing to others. "Express yourself some other way," said Luigi (Six Characters in Search of an Author) Pirandello. Young Fausto decided to be an artist, and last week, as Painter Pirandello, he was bringing fresh fame to the family name. At Rome's big Quadrien-nale Exposition, his group of nine expressionistic canvases won him the first prize of 1,000,000 lire (about $1,600) and further recognition as one of Italy's top-ranking painters...
...world has been in power as long. Back in April 1922, in Lenin's declining days, when Stalin was forging his way to the top, Harding was President of the U.S., Lloyd George was Prime Minister of Britain, Raymond Poincaré Premier of France, and somebody named Luigi Facta ruled Italy-all of them long since dead...
...people," says Santo. "When I do a landscape, I start with the sky and the mountains and I leave the foreground for the last. I like to get the far objects into it just as much as the near." The results are often closer to the slick naturalism of Luigi Lucioni than to the guileless sincerity of primitives like Grandma Moses...
...Luigi Pirandello's Right You Are (If You Think You Are) is at first glance a grotesque mixture of Shaw and Cervantes. Its moral is the gospel of Don Quixote, that the only reality lies in men's dreams and visions, and its dramatic technique, is the old Shavian play of subverting story for an intellectual theme. There is no such thing as objective truth, says Pirandello, and he manipulates his puppets to prove his point...
...drawings. Roman Sculptor Pericle Fazzini displayed a handsome streamlined angel, Milanese Sculptor Giacomo Manzù a series of 25 brilliant figure sketches for works in bronze. Among the pictures were powerful drawings of fishermen by Roman Marcello Muccini, several robustly expressionist nudes by Fausto Pirandello, son of Playwright Luigi Pirandello, and a half-gallery of ex-Surrealist Giorgio de Chirico's latest neoclassical horses, nudes and knights in armor...