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1924 Trapani, Italy - 2014 Rome, Italy. Known for: Abstract painting on plastic.
Carla Accardi. b. 1924, Trapani, Italy. Born on October 9, 1924, in Trapani, Italy, Carla Accardi trained as a painter at the Accademia di belle arti, Florence, before moving to Rome in 1946. Accardi... Read full biography
Carla Accardi. b. 1924, Trapani, Italy. Born on October 9, 1924, in Trapani, Italy, Carla Accardi trained as a painter at the Accademia di belle arti, Florence, before moving to Rome in 1946. Accardi quickly became part of the inner circle of the Art Club and was a frequent visitor to Pietro... Read full biography
Carla Accardi. b. 1924, Trapani, Italy. Born on October 9, 1924, in Trapani, Italy, Carla Accardi trained as a painter at the Accademia di belle arti, Florence, before moving to Rome in 1946. Accardi quickly became part of the inner circle of the Art Club and was a frequent visitor to Pietro Consagra's studio. There she met the artists with whom she would establish the influential postwar group Forma 1 (Form 1, 1947-51): Consagra, Piero Dorazio, Mino Guerrini, Achille Perilli, Antonio... Read full biography
Carla Accardi. b. 1924, Trapani, Italy. Born on October 9, 1924, in Trapani, Italy, Carla Accardi trained as a painter at the Accademia di belle arti, Florence, before moving to Rome in 1946. Accardi quickly became part of the inner circle of the Art Club and was a frequent visitor to Pietro Consagra's studio. There she met the artists with whom she would establish the influential postwar group Forma 1 (Form 1, 1947-51): Consagra, Piero Dorazio, Mino Guerrini, Achille Perilli, Antonio Sanfilippo (whom she would marry), and Giulio Turcato. The group's manifesto, which Accardi signed in 1947, called for reconciling Marxist politics with abstract art. The group's first exhibition occurred in Rome in 1947, and Accardi's first solo show soon... Read full biography
Carla Accardi. b. 1924, Trapani, Italy. Born on October 9, 1924, in Trapani, Italy, Carla Accardi trained as a painter at the Accademia di belle arti, Florence, before moving to Rome in 1946. Accardi quickly became part of the inner circle of the Art Club and was a frequent visitor to Pietro Consagra's studio. There she met the artists with whom she would establish the influential postwar group Forma 1 (Form 1, 1947-51): Consagra, Piero Dorazio, Mino Guerrini, Achille Perilli, Antonio Sanfilippo (whom she would marry), and Giulio Turcato. The group's manifesto, which Accardi signed in 1947, called for reconciling Marxist politics with abstract art. The group's first exhibition occurred in Rome in 1947, and Accardi's first solo show soon followed, in 1950 at the Galleria Age d'or, Rome. Her early paintings consisted of interlocking geometric forms. In the 1950s, Acc... Read full biography
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Carla Accardi
b. 1924, Trapani, Italy
Born on October 9, 1924, in Trapani, Italy, Carla Accardi trained as a painter at the Accademia di belle arti, Florence, before moving to Rome in 1946. Accardi quickly became part of the inner circle of the Art Club and was a frequent visitor to Pietro Consagra's studio. There she met the artists with whom she would establish the influential postwar group Forma 1 (Form 1, 1947-51): Consagra, Piero Dorazio, Mino Guerrini, Achille Perilli, Antonio Sanfilippo (whom she would marry), and Giulio Turcato.
The group's manifesto, which Accardi signed in 1947, called for reconciling Marxist politics with abstract art. The group's first exhibition occurred in Rome in 1947, and Accardi's first so...But wait, there's more...
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