Italo Mus
Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Oil
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1970s American Modern Nude Photography
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Joseph-Italo Mus was an Italian painter. He realized about 2000 works, including drawings, sketches, paintings with different subjects, technique and conception and that can be divided by the artist into three well-defined periods. Between 1920–40, the works that mostly characterize his style are born, from these years interiors, the haystacks, the landscapes and the dances that tell scenes of the mountain life of Aosta. Between 1941–58, the pictorial touch of his style underwent a change and his paintings became a pretext for making color. Indeed, fantasy prevails over reality, and Joseph-Italo Mus wanted to be inspired by the sgraffito by exploiting the effect of the cast on tissue paper. Between 1959–67, he tried a return to the origins by drawing again with ink and charcoal and was preparing to perform sketches for large works intended for public buildings in the valley.
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Figurative art, as opposed to abstract art, retains features from the observable world in its representational depictions of subject matter. Most commonly, figurative paintings reference and explore the human body, but they can also include landscapes, architecture, plants and animals — all portrayed with realism.
While the oldest figurative art dates back tens of thousands of years to cave wall paintings, figurative works made from observation became especially prominent in the early Renaissance. Artists like Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and other Renaissance masters created naturalistic representations of their subjects.
Pablo Picasso is lauded for laying the foundation for modern figurative art in the 1920s. Although abstracted, this work held a strong connection to representing people and other subjects. Other famous figurative artists include Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud. Figurative art in the 20th century would span such diverse genres as Expressionism, Pop art and Surrealism.
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