Antonio Corpora Art

Antonio Corpora was a Tunisian born Italian painter who followed the Tachisme style of Abstract art. In 1928, he attended the Academy of Fine Arts in his city under the mentorship of Armand Vergeaud. In 1929, he moved to Florence, where he attended the art courses of Felice Carena at the Academy of Fine Arts. In 1930, he moved to Paris, eventually settling in Rome in 1939. In 1945, Corpora reached the apex of his success. In 1946, he founded, with Renato Guttuso, the movement Fronte Nuovo delle Arti, a post-Cubist Italian art movement and participated in the Venice Biennal for the first time. His artistic language is characterized by abstract shapes and contrasting colors.