Riccardo Tommasi Ferroni - Artist Info

About Riccardo Tommasi Ferroni

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    Riccardo Tommasi Ferroni (1934-2000)

    He was a leading post-modern Italian figure painter throughout the latter part of the twentieth-century. Ferroni's paintings combine classical themes and subjects from the Renaissance in surreal discontinuous spaces that stylistically resemble the works of DeChirico, Dali and DuChamp. In contrast to their works, Ferroni's paintings are politically charged. Ferroni`s surreal compositions were pivotal to the resurgence of figurative painting in the early 1980s. Abstract existential art, void of figural or classical narratives, dominated the Italian art scene following World War II. Ferroni's works were inspirational to the following generation of arti...

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