Felicita Frai - Untitled

The iconography of this lithograph certainly has allegorical meanings and can be defined, in some ways, as symbolist precisely because of its allusion to underlying meanings. This type of subject can be traced back to the artistic language of late nineteenth-century painters such as Moreau, Bocklin, and Puvis des Chavannes, who, while using a primarily figurative language, developed intellectually complex iconographies, full of symbolic and allegorical references. Felicita Frai's paintings often feature allegorical female figures, alluding to an ideal of beauty and harmony.

In her artistic production, Felicita Frai has developed a personal and highly recognizable expressive language. This aesthetic canon (which applies to both female figures and flowers) lies midway between a naïve, playful, and libertarian spirit and the refinement of an illustrator. Indeed, the figure undergoes a process of simplification, but in an aesthetic sense that tends toward a dreamlike, fairy-tale dimension. The female figures, in particular, represent the painter's search for pure beauty in an idealistic dimension. This ideal of beauty and harmony, formally, is expressed in a style that sees color as the primary means of expression. Indeed, the figures are synthesized through the pictorial layering, so that their colors blend perfectly with those of the flowers that adorn them and with the space that surrounds them. Their incorporeal substance blends seamlessly into the ethereal atmosphere of the painting, so that the entire surface of the work appears unified in the polychrome freshness that characterizes this artist.

Felicita Frai, the pseudonym of Felice Frajova, was a Czech artist born in Prague in 1909. She moved to Italy in 1930, first to Trieste and then to Ferrara, where she studied with Achille Funi. In 1938 and 1948, she participated in the Venice Biennale. In the 1940s, she moved to Milan, where she frequented Giorgio de Chirico's studio and participated in the Triennale from 1945 to 1954. She was also a well-known illustrator. She passed away in 2010.

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