Sebastiano Milluzzo - Gli allori di Giove

Artist: Sebastiano Milluzzo

Title: Gli allori di Giove, 1973

Medium: Oil on canvas

Size: 40x50 cm

Frame: Wooden frame

Hand-signed by the artist, front and back, accompanied by a Certificate of guarantee from an art gallery and an expertise from an illustrious art critic and professor at the Academy of Fine Arts.

The artist:

At just thirteen years old he attended the School of Arts and Crafts in Catania. He then moved to Rome where he attended the school of nude and in 1939 he graduated from the Art School.

After the war, his painting was oriented towards the masters of Impressionism, without however disdaining influences deriving from the Cubist and Picasso experiences, which would prove to be fundamental for all his subsequent production. Recurring themes are landscapes, nudes, female figures, still lifes, mythological themes and, from the 1980s, masks. The subjects are interpreted with warm, bright colors, and sometimes geometric structures, always dynamic and full of tension. In the 1960s the artist dedicated himself to experimenting with different techniques: engravings, zincography, lithographs, embossing, sculptures, posters and scenography.

At the height of his activity he took part in various contemporary art exhibitions: he participated in the National Exhibition of Fine Arts in Milan in 1941 and in the Venice Biennale in 1948. He also received an invitation to participate in two consecutive editions of the National Quadrennial of Art in Rome, in 1948 and 1951 (the V and VI editions respectively).