Enrico Baj Mixed Media

A rare edition work from “The Generals” series, dated back to the early Seventies. Mixed media with passamentrie and collage on brocade with originals medals and pins limited edition...

Assemblage of stones and mirrors on brocade applied on board, edited in 1972 limited edition hand-signed by artist in lower right corner, also signed, titled and numbered to verso ‘D...

Illustrated Book, Handsigned by the artist in Edition : 3/99 Publisher : Jacques Boulan Printer : Stamperia d'Arte GF 48.00 cm. x 38.00 cm. 18.9 in. x 14.96 in. (paper) Enrico Baj...

Enrico Baj ( 1924 - 2003 ) - General - Resin sculpture with inclusions, 1967 Additional information: Material: Resin sculpture with inclusions of various types of objects and origin...

Mixed media With felt and glitter on silkscreen. Hand signed and numbered by the artist.. Edition of 250. Artwork image size approx 23 x 33.75 inches. Custom framed as pictured. Art...

Mixed media With felt and glitter on silkscreen. Hand signed and numbered by the artist.. Edition of 250. Artwork image size approx 21.25 x 28.75 inches. Custom framed as pictured...

A very interesting and highly expressive piece by the popular Italian artist. Collage on material with rope and metal. Signed lower right. After studying at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera from 1945 to 1948, and having gained a law degree, Baj devoted himself to art from 1950. The following year he began a career that has produced a variety of artistic creations always characterised by his fighting spirit, and has embraced a raft of different groups. He started by establishing the Nuclear Movement (Movimento Nucleare) (1951), which placed art in opposition to man's modern and threatening environment. He then founded an International Movement for an Imaginist Bauhaus, which ran counter to 'constructivist' Bauhaus. He founded the movement with Asger Jorn, one of the founders of the international group of artists Cobra. In 1955, when his work approached Lyrical Abstraction, he set up the magazine Il Gesto with the critic Edouard Jaguer and the painter Dangelo. He contributed to the manifestos Against Style in 1957, Interplanetary Art in 1959, and Painting and Reality in 1960. Between 1959 and 1966 he became linked with the Surrealists and participated with them in the official International Surrealist Exhibitions of 1959 and 1965. In 1965 the art critic Gassiot-Talabot included him in the French group Narrative Figuration (Figuration Narrative), also known as New Figuration (Nouvelle Figuration). Although he was initially inspired by Tachism (from 'tache', the French for blot, stain), Baj showed a real taste for collage early on, altering pious images and landscapes on traditional canvases using a few dabs of paint and glued-on wallpaper. In 1956 Baj began his craze for producing heads, with Solar Heads and then heads of Generals, which he made a mockery of by sticking bits of fabric, old-fashioned soft furnishings, curtain braid, rejected clothes, and forgotten or even invented decorations on the portraits. As well as being humorous, the off-the-wall nature...