Code: 10397
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This beautiful
painting by A. Beggiora is a fantastic representation of the Movimento Arte
Concreta (MAC) in Italy between 1948 and 1958.
It was an
artistic movement
founded in
Milan
in
1948
by
Atanasio Soldati
,
Gillo Dorfles
,
Bruno Munari
,
Gianni Monnet
, with the aim of
promoting non-figurative art, and in particular a type of
abstraction
free from all
imitation and reference with the outside world, mainly geometric in orientation.
The
term was coined by Theo van Doesburg, in his 1930 Manifesto of Concrete Art.
Van Doesburg`s insistence that art should be formed from the
"concrete" elements of form and colour without reference to the
physical world was championed by the Swiss artist Max Bill, a former student of
Josef Albers and Wassily Kandinsky at the Bauhaus.
The MAC began with
an exhibition held at the Libreria Salto in Milan in December
1948
, presented by
Marchiori
. In the following years, the
Movement is structured with a widespread organizational network in various
cities, as well as Milan, like
Turin
,
Genoa
,
Florence
, Rome, Naples and including
not only painters or sculptors, but also architects,
industrial designers
, graphic
designers. The latter characteristic of the MAC can be put in relation with the
multiplicity of interests of two figures like those of Dorfles and Munari. The
MAC disbanded in
1958
.