Picture "Untitled IV." (1989)
Picture "Untitled IV." (1989)
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limited, 50 copies | numbered | signed | lithograph on handmade paper | unframed | size 100 x 140 cm
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Picture "Untitled IV." (1989)
Original colour lithograph, 1989. Edition: 50 copies on handmade paper, Roman numbered and signed by hand. Unframed. Motif size 80 x 120 cm. Sheet size 100 x 140 cm.
About Piero Dorazio
1927-2005
Born in Rome in 1927, Piero Dorazio is considered one of the greatest Italian painters of the second half of the 20th century and an important pioneer of abstraction. Dorazio belonged to the influential Italian artists' association Movimento per l'arte concreta – Concrete Art Movement, which, as the name implies, was dedicated to the manifestation of an abstract-concrete art to counteract the spread of informal painting.
Dorazio's abstract, non-representational imagery is expressed in the constant use of pure unmixed primary colours, which the artist combines with horizontal, vertical and diagonal lines, panels and surfaces to create a constructivist-like structure. The artist creates multicoloured geometric compositions that generate a serene mood despite their strict formalisation. The works of the painter Dorazio can be understood as portals to a Mediterranean world and its unique light, which the viewer is able to enter as soon as he/she has surrendered to the vibrant, shimmering mood of the works.
Term for paintings and sculptures that are detached from the representational depiction, which spread throughout the entire western and parts of the eastern world from around 1910 onwards in ever new stylistic variations. The Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky, born in 1866, is considered the founder of abstract art. Other important artists of abstract art are K.S. Malewitsch, Piet Mondrian, and others.
The field of graphic arts, that includes artistic representations, which are reproduced by various printing techniques.
Printmaking techniques include woodcuts, copperplate engraving, etching, lithography, serigraphy.