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Fausto melotti ceramic. Fausto melotti was a seminal italian postwar ceramicist sculptor painter and poet he was an integral part of the artistic and intellectual fabric of postwar italy and he befriended and worked with many of its leading members such as lucio fontana gio ponti giorgio de chirico and alberto burri. Several generations of ceramicists who encapsulate the freedom spontaneity and flair of the italian aesthetic. The italian ceramic arts of fausto melotti michele fabbricatore and fausto salvi. Best known for his bronze sculptures the artist was also associated with his terracotta teatrini or little theaters small ceramic boxes filled with figurines.
Working in an array of materials including wood wire plaster and ceramics fausto melotti is known for creating curious surrealist sculptures in which symbolic forms express what has been described as the inner realms of human experience melotti s artistic career spanned the mid 20th century and he is thought to have been influenced by fellow italians georgio de chirico and lucio. La pittura fausto melotti fausto melotti fausto melotti was born into a musical family and he initially studied physics mathematics and electrical engineering. Fausto melotti italy ca. X 2 h in.
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There is a chief director that is the fire who stands at your shoulders and ends up. Fausto melotti was a self declared lover of ceramics. His playful structures such as la neve 1973 played with balance and negative space to create a whimsical and intriguing final result. In 1928 at the age of 27 he.
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