Aleardo Terzi On Sale

Aleardo Terzi was born into a good family. His father, Andrea was an important illustrator and his mother, Rose Engel was born in a family close to the library factory. His brother Amedeo became a drawer and collaborated with Aleardo in some periods of his career. Terzi attended the Academy of Fine Arts of Palermo and then started working with La Tribuna Illustrata as an illustrator. During this period, he started to refine his graphic style, where appeared for the first time the feminine figure. In 1898, he moved to Milan, invited by his friend Mataloni, and began working at Officine Ricordi, where he met the most important advertising poster designers such as Adolfo Hohenstein and Marcello Dudovich. In 1904, he was nominated as a director and drawer at Danesi, Rome. Since 1911, he began the important collaboration with the publisher Edoardo Chappuis (Boulogne). During this period, he also decorated majolicas for Richard Ginori and realized scenographies and costumes for the Theatre.

Bring energy and an array of welcome colors and textures into your space by decorating with figurative fine-art prints and works on paper.

Figurative art stands in contrast to abstract art, which is more expressive than representational. The oldest-known work of figurative art is a figurative painting — specifically, a rock painting of an animal made over 40,000 years ago in Borneo. This remnant of a remote past has long faded, but its depiction of a cattle-like creature in elegant ocher markings endures.

Since then, figurative art has evolved significantly as it continues to represent the world, including a breadth of works on paper, including printmaking. This includes woodcuts, which are a type of relief print with perennial popularity among collectors. The artist carves into a block and applies ink to the raised surface, which is then pressed onto paper. There are also planographic prints, which use metal plates, stones or other flat surfaces as their base. The artist will often draw on the surface with grease crayon and then apply ink to those markings. Lithographs are a common version of planographic prints.

Figurative art printmaking was especially popular during the height of the Pop art movement, and this kind of work can be seen in artist Andy Warhol’s extensive use of photographic silkscreen printing. Everyday objects, logos and scenes were given a unique twist, whether in the style of a comic strip or in the use of neon colors.

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