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Chini
Decorator, potter, designer and painter, Galileo Chini was a versatile and peculiar artist, who started his career at a very early age. He stands out in the Italian art scene between the 16th and 20th century for introducing Art Nuveau in Italy, firmly maintaining that fine arts and crafts could be combined to help shape and revitalize our territory. “La Primavera” is a big work of art divided into panels that was commissioned to Chini by the Venice Biennale and displayed at the exhibition Main Hall in 1914. The painting is a glorious mix of female figures and decorative patterns that reminds the viewer of the works of Gustav Klimt, but with a very Italian touch to it. The Chini hat is made of a stylized flower pattern repeated all around, that well harmonizes with the twisted rib stitch of the cuff. The same pattern decorates the matching Chini fingerless mitts.
Personalità poliedrica e precoce, Galileo Chini fu artista praticamente unico nel panorama dell’arte italiana fra il XIX ed il
XX secolo: grandissimo decoratore, ceramista, illustratore, scenografo e pittore, introdusse l’Art Nouveau nella tradizione
italiana e sostenne fermamente l’unione delle arti e dell’artigianato ed il loro ruolo fondamentale nella riqualificazione del
territorio.
“La Primavera” costituisce una grande opera suddivisa in enormi pannelli che Chini fu chiamato a realizzare per il
Salone Centrale alla Biennale di Venezia nel 1914. Le tele sono un trionfo di decorazioni e figure femminili che molto
ricordano l’arte di Gustav Klimt, tradotte però in uno spirito artistico che è totalmente italiano.
Il cappello è costituito da un modulo in cui il motivo floreale è fortemente stilizzato, in armonia con le coste ritorte che ne
costituiscono la base. Analoga decorazione caratterizza i guanti senza dita coordinati.
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