{"product_id":"novella-parigini-abbraccio-con-gatto","title":"Novella Parigini - Hug with a Cat","description":"Her name is linked to the 1950s and 1960s, the \" \u003ca title=\"Dolce Vita (period)\" href=\"https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dolce_vita_(periodo)\"\u003eDolce Vita\u003c\/a\u003e ,\" of which she was a symbol, choosing \u003ca title=\"Rome\" href=\"https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Roma\"\u003eRome\u003c\/a\u003e , and \u003ca title=\"Via Margutta\" href=\"https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Via_Margutta\"\u003eVia Margutta\u003c\/a\u003e in particular, as the stage for her personal and artistic adventures. She threw herself into the whirlwind of Roman life and paid the price, becoming embroiled in legal disputes.\n\u003cfigure class=\"mw-default-size mw-halign-left\"\u003e \u003ca class=\"mw-file-description\" href=\"https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:StajanoParigini.jpg\"\u003e\u003cimg class=\"mw-file-element\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/it\/thumb\/9\/99\/StajanoParigini.jpg\/220px-StajanoParigini.jpg\" srcset=\"\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/it\/thumb\/9\/99\/StajanoParigini.jpg\/330px-StajanoParigini.jpg 1.5x, \/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/it\/thumb\/9\/99\/StajanoParigini.jpg\/440px-StajanoParigini.jpg 2x\" width=\"220\" height=\"168\" data-file-width=\"500\" data-file-height=\"381\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e \u003cfigcaption\u003eNovella Parigini with \u003ca title=\"Gio Stajano\" href=\"https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gi%C3%B2_Stajano\"\u003eGiò Stajano\u003c\/a\u003e and one of his models in the \u003ca title=\"Barcaccia Fountain\" href=\"https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fontana_della_Barcaccia\"\u003eFontana della Barcaccia\u003c\/a\u003e in Rome at the end of the 1950s\u003c\/figcaption\u003e\u003c\/figure\u003e\r \nShe established herself in the world of Parisian \u003ca title=\"Existentialism\" href=\"https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Esistenzialismo\"\u003eexistentialism\u003c\/a\u003e ; characteristic features of her art include cat-like eyes in both male and female figures, pronounced cheekbones, plump and full lips, and large breasts—the prototype of today's woman—and the repetition of subjects that anticipated the processes of massification that only a few years later would bring back artists like \u003ca title=\"Andy Warhol\" href=\"https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Andy_Warhol\"\u003eAndy Warhol\u003c\/a\u003e . Raised in the cult of beauty and \u003ca title=\"Hedonism\" href=\"https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Edonismo\"\u003ehedonism\u003c\/a\u003e inherited from her aristocratic Sienese family, her experience blended with French existentialism, \u003ca title=\"Feminism\" href=\"https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Femminismo\"\u003efeminism\u003c\/a\u003e , and \u003ca title=\"Surrealism\" href=\"https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Surrealismo\"\u003esurrealism\u003c\/a\u003e , ultimately resulting in a pioneering and intellectual form of \u003ca title=\"Pop art\" href=\"https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pop_art\"\u003ePop Art\u003c\/a\u003e . A snob and aristocrat, immersed in Parisian intellectual circles, in the immediate post-war period she appeared unscrupulously strolling through the streets of Paris in \"heretical\" attire, becoming a protagonist of high society life.\r \n\nHer existentialism, however, diverges from that of her friend \u003ca title=\"Jean-Paul Sartre\" href=\"https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jean-Paul_Sartre\"\u003eJean-Paul Sartre\u003c\/a\u003e when it takes on political overtones; for Novella Parigini, being an existentialist meant being free from any political or sentimental tendencies or ties. Hers was a freedom that moved only toward the emancipation of man from the authority of conceptual forms, assumed as absolute, that overwhelm thought, amputating it of its infinite possibilities. Only from this awareness, she says, can that total freedom emerge, which then takes the form of choice and responsibility. Her transgressions, her excesses, were a way to experiment with the new possibilities offered by free thought, not a subversive or revolutionary attitude. When asked what she meant by art, she replied: \n\u003cdiv class=\"itwiki-template-citazione\"\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"itwiki-template-citazione-singola\"\u003e\n\n\n «An explanation of thought, not of feeling,... of thought»»\n\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\r \nAs for surrealism in Novella Parigini, this takes on different characteristics from those theorized by \u003ca title=\"André Breton\" href=\"https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Andr%C3%A9_Breton\"\u003eAndré Breton\u003c\/a\u003e , it had nothing to do with the unconscious and the dreamlike, it was only an expressive form to freely express one's thoughts, a choice however influenced by her friendship with \u003ca title=\"Salvador Dalí\" href=\"https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Salvador_Dal%C3%AD\"\u003eSalvador Dalí\u003c\/a\u003e , who was also her teacher.\n\u003cfigure class=\"mw-default-size\"\u003e \u003ca class=\"mw-file-description\" href=\"https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Pariginino.jpg\"\u003e\u003cimg class=\"mw-file-element\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/5\/5c\/Pariginino.jpg\/260px-Pariginino.jpg\" srcset=\"\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/5\/5c\/Pariginino.jpg\/390px-Pariginino.jpg 1.5x, \/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/5\/5c\/Pariginino.jpg\/520px-Pariginino.jpg 2x\" width=\"260\" height=\"251\" data-file-width=\"1421\" data-file-height=\"1372\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cfigcaption\u003e Novella Parigini exhibits her paintings on the Spanish Steps (1986)\u003c\/figcaption\u003e\u003c\/figure\u003e\r \nShe has exhibited in many cities around the world, including \u003ca title=\"China\" href=\"https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cina\"\u003eChina\u003c\/a\u003e ; the French post office issued a stamp reproducing one of her paintings and numerous paintings are exhibited in various churches \u003ca class=\"external autonumber\" href=\"http:\/\/www.exibart.com\/profilo\/eventiV2.asp?idelemento=25485\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e[1]\u003c\/a\u003e (see also K. Puccini, 1985 and E.Echeoni, 1999). She was committed to the defence of Via Margutta, threatened by building speculation that wanted to transform the art \u003ci\u003estudios\u003c\/i\u003e into mini-apartments, and the \"One Hundred Painters\" exhibition that she had wanted since 1955 and in which she participated together with established and, above all, unknown artists, to offer them a chance. From the beginning of the seventies until her death she began an intense pictorial partnership with Elvino Echeoni who now takes care of the foundation. In 1993 she died \u003csup id=\"cite_ref-1\" class=\"reference\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Novella_Parigini#cite_note-1\"\u003e[1]\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e and is buried in the \u003ca title=\"Verano Cemetery\" href=\"https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cimitero_del_Verano\"\u003eVerano Cemetery\u003c\/a\u003e \u003csup id=\"cite_ref-2\" class=\"reference\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Novella_Parigini#cite_note-2\"\u003e[2]\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e .\r \n\nAfter his death, some letters from \u003ca title=\"Gabriele D'Annunzio\" href=\"https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gabriele_D%27Annunzio\"\u003eGabriele D'Annunzio\u003c\/a\u003e to Novella's mother, Emilia, were found (including one of the first drafts of \u003ci\u003eLa pioggia nel pineto\u003c\/i\u003e ), in which it is \"the prophet\" himself who gives Novella her name and provides instructions on how an \"infallible\" talisman he gave her works.","brand":"Laura Marzii","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56219270971778,"sku":"lmar008","price":1200.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0909\/7065\/3058\/files\/pari.jpg?v=1768479485","url":"https:\/\/cjfh11-ee.myshopify.com\/en\/products\/novella-parigini-abbraccio-con-gatto","provider":"Venderequadri","version":"1.0","type":"link"}