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Carlo Fornara (21 October 1871 – 15 September 1968) was an Italian neo-impressionist and divisionist painter.

Carlo Fornara
Born(1871-10-21)21 October 1871
Craveggia
Died15 September 1968(1968-09-15) (aged 96)
Craveggia
NationalityItalian
EducationSchool of Fine Arts "Rossetti Valentini"
Known forPainting
MovementNeo-impressionism, Divisionism

Biography


Born in Prestinone (Craveggia) into a humble family of Valle Vigezzo farmers in 1871, his talent emerged after he began attending courses in painting, drawing and ornamentation at the local Rossetti Valentini Art School[1] in Santa Maria Maggiore, where he became close friends with other future painters such as Giovanni Battista Ciolina, Gian Maria Rastellini and Lorenzo Peretti Junior, and absorbed the teachings of Enrico Cavalli, a great connoisseur of the French art of the time, who decisively influenced him to follow the path of painting.

In the spring of 1891 he exhibited two works, La bottega del calderaio (The Tinker’s Workshop) and Ricordanze (Remembrance), at the First Triennale of Brera,[2] a vitally important occasion because there he made contact for the first time with the arising divisionist movement. However, during his stay in Lyon, from 1894 to 1895, in the company of his friend and fellow painter Giovanni Battista Ciolina, Fornara drew closer to the neo-impressionist movement, as he manifested in the work En plein air which was, however, refused in 1897 by the Third Biennale of Brera, despite being judged very positively by artists such as Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo and Giovanni Segantini, two of the leading exponents of divisionism.

In 1899 he took part in the Third International Art Exhibition [it] in Venice.

He made the acquaintance of Alberto Grubicy de Dragon, owner of the Grubicy Gallery and brother of the promoter of divisionism in Europe, the art dealer Vittore Grubicy de Dragon, himself a painter, and impressed them both. They put him in touch with Segantini, who employed the young artist as his assistant at the 1900 Paris Exposition Universelle. Thanks to the patronage of the Grubicys, Fornara’s work was presented at all the national and international painting exhibitions of any importance in those years, but his adherence to the divisionist school gradually began to wane until it finally petered out altogether during the 1920s, when the artist began his own painting research in a completely personal style. In 1922 he definitively retired to his beloved Val Vigezzo, where he died in 1968.


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References


  1. School of Fine Arts "Rossetti Valentini" in Santa Maria Maggiore
  2. Online catalogue of exhibition "Brera 1891 – L'esposizione che rivoluzionò l'arte moderna" curated by Elisabetta Staudacher at Gallerie Maspes, Milan 2016
  3. Exhibition "Paesaggi dell'Ottocento. Verso la luce" at the MAG - Museo Alto Garda
  4. Exhibition "Carlo Fornara e il ritratto vigezzino" at Fondazione Poscio



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Carlo Fornara, né le 21 octobre 1871 à Prestinone (une frazione de Craveggia, en Italie), et mort le 15 septembre 1968 dans la même commune[1], est un peintre italien.

[it] Carlo Fornara

Carlo Fornara (Prestinone, 21 ottobre 1871 – Prestinone, 15 settembre 1968) è stato un pittore italiano, legato alla corrente pittorica del primo '900 italiano, nota come divisionismo.


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