Domenico Spinosa ^©  

(1916 - 2007)

Title on the reverse
Signed and dated on the reverse

Blindarte kindly thanks Dott.ssa Aurora Spinosa for confriming via email the authenticity of the artwork and the help in compiling this sheet.

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Domenico Spinosa is considered one of the most active painters of the Informal area, to which must be traced much of his research. Since 1954 he has participated in all the Biennials, won the Michetti prize, exhibited in Rome, in Spoleto, and several times in Turin; a city in which he was proposed to move: «I didn’t want to leave Naples».

The artist remains very attached to Naples: teacher and then director of the Artistic High School, since 1973 he was the holder of the chair of painting of the Academy. Marco Valsecchi, art critic, on the painting of the Master in 1969 wrote: “E’ meglio dire che la pittura di Spinosa trae gli spunti dei suoi quadri da molti motivi, di emozione e di cultura che si incrociano nella sua mente. Nella sua pittura trovi a esempio i colori gualciti dei vecchi muri di Napoli, le ombre, i colori e le sdruciture dei vecchi intonachi dei vicoli: ci trovi la luce pastosa e cangiante che piove dall’alto e si rifrange dalle terrazze; e ci trovi le preziosità coloristiche del barocchetto napoletano, certi azzurri e verdi giallini e incarnati che schiariscono i dipinti del Sei e Settecento sugli altari partenopei.”

(Freely taken from the artist's biography published on treccani.it)