Word: vespignani
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Almost immediately, artists began drafting manifestoes denouncing the show as reactionary. Half the invited big names, including Painters Giorgio Morandi, Massimo Campigli, Renzo Vespignani and Sculptor Marino Marini, flatly refused to exhibit, and 50 of them dispatched a violently worded protest. Their big objection: the Quadriennale, traditionally a show of contemporary art, was devoting entirely too much space to the works of the dead. Countered exhibit officials: "After so much modern art, the visitor needs a hall or two in which to rest. To reproach us for this is like reproaching an exhibition for having...
Esso judges divided the $1,500 first prize between Franco Gentilini, 42, who did a lively brown and green oil of a refinery (see cut), and Renzo Vespignani, 26, a onetime pupil of Gentilini's, who painted a striking night-time scene of a smoke-shrouded refinery...
...Vespignani, a card-carrying Communist, has no scruples about taking money from U.S. capitalists. "After all," said he, "every painting is a kind of record, a statement that something exists. These oil refineries exist. And anyway, there was nothing in my painting that said 'Go out and buy Esso gasoline...
...Marcello Muccini is one of Italy's best living artists, but until last week he never had a one-man show. The reason is that Muccini paints so little. A lean, troubled product of the same slum that produced his friend and fellow painter Vespignani (TIME, Jan. 29), Muccini often loafs for months on end. When he does work, as last week's exhibition proved, he puts his heart...
Like his better-known friend Vespignani, Muccini is a working Communist, but he does not paint to propagandize. "I want an art which is tied to life," he says. "At the same time I don't want to make it polemic. My pictures have a social content, not a political one." Muccini has painted many Christs, never a Stalin...