Umberto Pettinicchio

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Umberto Pettinicchio

Umberto Pettinicchio (born 1943) is an Italian painter and sculptor. [1]

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Biography

He was born in Torremaggiore [2] :1451 and moved to Milan, where he studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera and had his first show in 1969. [3] :103

His early paintings were in the expressionist style but became increasingly more abstract. [4] His 1981 painting The Death of the Bull is held in the Museo de Arte Moderno y Contemporáneo de Santander y Cantabria. [5]

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References

  1. Carella, Elvira (31 January 2010). "Le colline della Brianza e i suoi stupendi campanili sono la mia ispirazione". Il Giorno . Retrieved 8 March 2017 (in Italian).
  2. Giorgio Di Genova (2007). Storia dell'arte italiana del '900, volume VI, part 1 (in Italian). Bologna: Edizioni Bora. ISBN   9788888600390.
  3. [s.n.] (1983). Los Cuadernos del norte, volume 4, issues 17-22 (in Spanish). Oviedo, España: Caja de Ahorros de Asturias.
  4. Scantamburlo, Elisabetta (curator). Catalog: Milano Art Design, 21 May–30 October 2015, p. 24
  5. Museo de Arte Moderno y Contemporáneo de Santander y Cantabria. Umberto Pettinicchio.