{"product_id":"dino-buzzati-senza-titolo-2","title":"Dino Buzzati - Untitled","description":"\u003cp\u003ePortraiture is one of the most widespread artistic expressions, especially in painting, but also in sculpture, throughout the ages. Portraiture is, first and foremost, a description of the subject depicted, an attempt to capture their physiognomy and individual characteristics truthfully and naturally. With the progressive evolution of artistic research, the physiognomic description of the subject has also been accompanied by a psychological one. Therefore, over the centuries, portraiture has also become a means of introspective investigation of the subject, their character, and their state of mind. The processes of abstraction brought about by contemporary art have contributed to this type of investigation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n \u003cp\u003eDino Buzzati's work, beyond his literary work, also stands out for his remarkable production of paintings and drawings. Dino Buzzati's pictorial art is directly inspired by the essentially surreal atmosphere of his novels and short stories. For this reason, his paintings also fall within the realm of a magical and fantastical realism, in which the plausibility of everyday situations is transfigured into a surreal dimension through elaborate formal expression. Thus, even a concrete subject like a woman's portrait takes on fantastical nuances through Buzzati's pictorial language, which draws inspiration from the essentiality of illustration. In this work, the artist creates the female figure with a clear graphic line that delineates the girl's face in an iconic manner. The plastic qualities are also enhanced by subtle shading. But it is above all in the elaboration of the composition that Buzzati shifts the representation into the realm of the fantastic: the split face, in fact, takes on a decidedly symbolic character.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n \u003cp\u003eDino Buzzati Traverso was born in 1906 in San Pellegrino, near Belluno. He attended high school in Milan; then, despite being attracted by literature, he graduated in law. He was then hired (1928) at the Milan office of the Corriere della Sera, where he would work for the rest of his life. Buzzati wrote his first novel, Barnabò delle montagne in 1933, with a characteristic fantastic vein. This vein was confirmed in his new book of 1935, Il segreto del Bosco Vecchio, also set in his beloved mountains. In the spring of 1939 he went to Ethiopia as a special correspondent: he discovered the desert and African landscapes, other typical environments of his imagination. Having fallen ill with typhus, he was forced to return to Italy. He achieved fame in 1940 with the novel The Desert of the Tartars. He began to produce more intensely: in 1942, his first collection of short stories, The Seven Messengers, was published, and three years later, he published a children's fairy tale, illustrated with his drawings, The Famous Invasion of the Bears in Sicily (1945). He also devoted himself intensely to painting: his first solo exhibition was held in 1958, the same year he won the Strega Prize with the anthology Sixty Stories. He also wrote librettos for musicals and designed sets for theatrical performances. In 1963, he published the novel Un amore (A Love), and in 1966, by then in his sixties, he got married. He died in Milan in 1972.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Maggioni Dario","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56218645234050,"sku":"DMAG003","price":800.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0909\/7065\/3058\/files\/PHOTO-2023-04-24-12-15-28-5.jpg?v=1768475199","url":"https:\/\/cjfh11-ee.myshopify.com\/en\/products\/dino-buzzati-senza-titolo-2","provider":"Venderequadri","version":"1.0","type":"link"}