Umberto Mastroianni Mixed Media

Italian, 1910-1998

Umberto Mastroianni (September 21, 1910 in Fontana Liri – February 25, 1998 in Marino, Italy), was an Italian abstract sculptor. In 1989, he received the first Praemium Imperiale for sculpture. During World War II, he was in the Italian resistance movement. He was the uncle of the actor Marcello Mastroianni and the film editor Ruggero Mastroianni. The Museo Civico Umberto Mastroianni was established in his honour. The son of Vincenzo Mastroianni and his second wife Luigia Maria Vincenza Conte, Umberto was an uncle of the actor Marcello Mastroianni: in fact, his father Vincenzo had had a son named Ottone from his first wife, Concetta Conte, sister of his second wife, who was Marcello's father. Umberto arrived in Rome as a 14-year-old in 1924, where he attended drawing courses at the Accademia di San Marcello at the same time as his uncle Domenico's studio. He moved two years later, in 1926. The young Umberto modelled portraits of archaic taste, in terracotta, which were later transferred to bronze castings: myth and religious subjects were Umberto Mastroianni's stylistic hallmark in the pre-war period, alongside stylistic exercises with little boy heads and his favourite subject being masks of young women, with light and persuasive features. In 1930 came the first official recognition, the Tourism Prize, offered by the Ministry of Education and, shortly afterwards, the first exhibitions at national and European level. His first solo exhibition in 1931 at the ‘Galleria Genova’ in Genoa. From 1933 onwards, he regularly exhibited at national trade union exhibitions and was invited to all the Quadriennali in Rome, the Promotrici in Turin and the Biennali in Venice. In 1935 he took part in the Quadriennale in Rome for the first time, the following year in the Venice Biennale. His pictorial works on poor materials also date back to the early 1940s: he is the first Italian abstract sculptor, the leader of the 20th century revolution and an artist of absolute international importance. These are dynamic abstract-geometric forms that acquire depth in terracotta, plaster, cardboard and rough sacks (jute), coloured and scraped. Mastroianni's poetics decisively took up the echoes of the plastic dynamism of Boccioni's ascendancy, revisiting and broadening its contents and cultural references. Some of his early post-war works in worn-out jute (works of very small dimensions, almost as if they were relics of ancient civilisations, later found) are preserved in the Galleria d'arte moderna in Rome, the Tate Gallery in London, and the Salomon Guggenheim Museum in New York. In fact, his research, starting from direct references to the Futurist season, to Brancusi's Cubist season, to John Arp's and Henry Moore's plastics, hinges on the study and rendering of dynamic values, understood and conferred in the structures understood as a clot of lines of force, the generative nucleus of an explosion of gestures blocked by the weight of matter, trapped in matter. The subsequent evolution is the landing to the Informal season, (1950-1961) a completely autonomous phase, another act of his extraordinary creative personality.

Artist: Umberto Mastroianni

Umberto MastroianniLemurs - Mixed Media by Umberto Mastroianni - 1978, 1978

$7,766

Lemurs - Mixed Media by Umberto Mastroianni - 1978

By Umberto Mastroianni

Located in Roma, IT

Lemurs is an artwork realized by Umberto Mastroianni in 1978. Mixed colored scratched and colored cardboard on canvas. Includes frame. Han signed on the lower margin.

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1970s Contemporary Umberto Mastroianni Mixed Media

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Cardboard, Charcoal, Mixed Media

Kory TwaddleBasement Systems, 2019

$1,150

H 18 in W 12 in D 0.2 in

Basement Systems

By Kory Twaddle

Located in Kansas City, MO

Artist : Kory Twaddle Title : Basement Systems Materials : Acrylic, tempera, gouache, and glitter glue on cardboard drawing pad back Date : 2019 Dimensions : 18 x 12 x .2 in. Kory ...

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2010s Abstract Expressionist Umberto Mastroianni Mixed Media

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Paint, Paper, Conté, Charcoal, India Ink, Acrylic, Tempera, Watercolor, ...

Kory TwaddleAutumn Biogram of the Nelson, 2011

$1,150

H 24 in W 18 in D 0.1 in

Autumn Biogram of the Nelson

By Kory Twaddle

Located in Kansas City, MO

Artist : Kory Twaddle "Autumn Biogram of the Nelson" Newsprint, graphite, conté crayon pastel, charcoal, beeswax, cardboard, paper, gingko leaves, stickers, and Mixed Media on drawi...

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2010s Abstract Umberto Mastroianni Mixed Media

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Paint, Paper, Conté, Charcoal, India Ink, Acrylic, Tempera, Watercolor, ...

Kory TwaddleBlue Springs Semi Upper Level, 2010

$1,312

H 36 in W 24 in D 0.1 in

Blue Springs Semi Upper Level

By Kory Twaddle

Located in Kansas City, MO

Artist : Kory Twaddle Title : Blue Springs Semi Upper Level Materials : Colored pencil, marker, tempera, gouache, stickers, tape, glitter glue, pastel, oil pastel, acrylic, graphite...

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2010s Abstract Geometric Umberto Mastroianni Mixed Media

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Paint, Paper, Conté, Charcoal, India Ink, Acrylic, Tempera, Watercolor, ...

Kory TwaddleCalifornia Monoprint, 2008

$1,312

H 36 in W 24 in D 0.1 in

California Monoprint

By Kory Twaddle

Located in Kansas City, MO

Artist : Kory Twaddle Title : California Monoprint Materials : Tempera on paper Date : 2008 Dimensions : 36 x 24 x .1 in. Kory Twaddle is a Kansas City based artist and Research A...

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Early 2000s Abstract Umberto Mastroianni Mixed Media

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Paint, Paper, Conté, Charcoal, India Ink, Acrylic, Tempera, Watercolor, ...

Fredrick IdeleRhythm of Hope -21st Century, Contemporary, Neo-Expressionism, Mixed Media Music, 2023

$2,100

H 24 in W 18 in D 1 in

Rhythm of Hope -21st Century, Contemporary, Neo-Expressionism, Mixed Media Music

By Fredrick Idele

Located in Ibadan, Oyo

Shipping Procedure Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity (Issued by the Gal...

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20th Century Neo-Expressionist Umberto Mastroianni Mixed Media

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Charcoal, Pastel, Acrylic, Cardboard

Lisa PressmanHeld Together, Contemporary Abstract Mixed Media Wall Sculpture, 8 x 8 Inches, 2025

$975

H 8 in W 8 in D 1.75 in

Held Together, Contemporary Abstract Mixed Media Wall Sculpture, 8 x 8 Inches

By Lisa Pressman

Located in New York, NY

Held Together embodies Lisa Pressman’s long investigation into how memory lives within the body, surface, and time. This sculptural mixed media work is both painting and object—built...

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2010s Contemporary Umberto Mastroianni Mixed Media

Materials

Thread, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Panel, Cardboard

Karen DrukerRed Goat Abstract Collage, c.2010

$540Sale Price|20% Off

H 28 in W 36 in D 0.13 in

Red Goat Abstract Collage

By Karen Druker

Located in Soquel, CA

Figurative abstract collage with goats and other media layered to form an interesting visual texture by Karen Druker (American, 1945). Signed "Druker" in the lower right corner. Pres...

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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Umberto Mastroianni Mixed Media

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Paper, Pastel, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Cardboard, Pen

Kory TwaddleBiogram of the Kansas City Zoo, 2009

$1,312

H 48 in W 36 in D 0.1 in

Biogram of the Kansas City Zoo

By Kory Twaddle

Located in Kansas City, MO

Artist : Kory Twaddle Title : Biogram of the Kansas City Zoo Materials : Pastel, oil pastel, acrylic, watercolor, gouache, tempera, glitter glue, foam stickers, paper, marker, color...

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2010s Abstract Umberto Mastroianni Mixed Media

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Paint, Paper, Conté, Charcoal, India Ink, Acrylic, Tempera, Watercolor, ...

Kory TwaddleFirst Floor Systems, 2018

$1,312

H 36 in W 24 in D 0.5 in

First Floor Systems

By Kory Twaddle

Located in Kansas City, MO

Artist : Kory Twaddle Title : First Floor Systems Materials : Acrylic, tempera, gouache, paintbrushes, and mixed media on drawing paper pad back with spiral Date : 2018 Dimensions ...

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2010s Abstract Impressionist Umberto Mastroianni Mixed Media

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Paint, Paper, Conté, Charcoal, India Ink, Acrylic, Tempera, Watercolor, ...

Keith HaringFor Ciccio, 1988, 1988

$88,254

H 4.14 in W 14.06 in D 17.13 in

For Ciccio, 1988

By Keith Haring

Located in Wien, 9

Keith Haring was an American artist and representative of American Pop Art of the 1980s. He first came to public attention with his chalk drawings in the New York underground, which ...

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1980s Contemporary Umberto Mastroianni Mixed Media

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Mixed Media, Cardboard, Plexiglass

Kory TwaddleNerve Center, 2018

$1,150

H 24 in W 36 in D 0.3 in

Nerve Center

By Kory Twaddle

Located in Kansas City, MO

Artist : Kory Twaddle Title : Nerve Center Materials : Acrylic, gouache, postage stamps, and mixed media on paper Date : 2018 Dimensions : 24 x 36 x 0.3 inches Kory Twaddle is a Ka...

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2010s Abstract Geometric Umberto Mastroianni Mixed Media

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Paint, Paper, Conté, Charcoal, India Ink, Acrylic, Tempera, Watercolor, ...

Silvio MerlinoTropical Mozart, 1996

$4,000

H 17.88 in W 25 in

Tropical Mozart

By Silvio Merlino

Located in New York, NY

mixed media and collage on cardboard. Depiction of Butterfly Fantasy

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1990s Contemporary Umberto Mastroianni Mixed Media

Materials

Mixed Media, Cardboard

Previously Available Items

Umberto MastroianniThe Wizard - Original Mixed Media by U. Mastroianni - 1965, 1965

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H 27.56 in W 19.69 in D 0.04 in

The Wizard - Original Mixed Media by U. Mastroianni - 1965

By Umberto Mastroianni

Located in Roma, IT

The Wizard is a splendid abstract artwork realized by the Italian artist Umberto Mastroianni in 1965. Acrylic, tempera, watercolor and collage on scratched cardboard. Signed and dat...

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1960s Contemporary Umberto Mastroianni Mixed Media

Materials

Acrylic, Tempera, Watercolor, Cardboard

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