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following art information is from the Dictionary of Painters, Sculptors,
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BARRA,
painter and sculpture born in Turin in 1940, has always, due to family
ties, been very familiar with the masters of painting. His first teachings
came from Guido Tallone on how to translate the human form and from
Antonio Carena the taste for research. In his first monochromes of
the fifties you can find the human form painted traditionally.
Then during a Parisian stay in '57 with the ageing Salvatelli, the modest Roman painter, who was also greatly searched for by important parties as a merchant and his rapport with Picasso, Dali' and Utrillo, lived the great art of the moment comparing it to the masters of the Louvre. In '58 his figurative art is even stronger than any other, but now his accents have changed, his moving figures are highlighted: it is this that he has called "metantropico". For years the reciprocal esteem had cemented in the years into a great friendship with Pino Ponti, without ever influencing his art. |
Barra's
metantropico of the fifties.
...Barra
considered painting like writing and one of his anthologic exhibitions
has always had the valence of a journey. In reading his works, the
purist extraction vibrates through the rythym that models the landscape,
and the language of form, at times grand and at times flattened by
its incompleteness, creates a sensazione.. |
| Mario De Micheli. | Jenny Katrivesis. Sidney. |
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The following art information is from the Dictionary of Painters, Sculptors, Designers, Ancient, Modern and Contemporary. |
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| Festa in piazza, oil on canvas, cm 60x60 |
email:
barra@barra.it
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