Lorenzato
A thorough study of the life and artistic legacy of painter and sculptor Amadeo Luciano Lorenzato (b. Belo Horizonte, 1900 -1995), considered one of the most important personalities of the Minas Gerais art circles. Half Italian half mineiro, Lorenzato who produced his own ink and experimented with innovative new media supports, left behind an important art production, fruit of his self-taught skills, his free character and his life experiences. Scarcely studied and ignored for many years, Lorenzato's art work defined as "Modernism Operario - Campones (Labor-Rural Modernism) was the victim of 20th century radical aesthetic prejudices. The book offers a fresh perspective on the artist who, as the author describes "paints without ravishment, with complete detachment, and does not meet the market or the system demands. Completely absorbed in the real power of the image he creates, he paints in a state of vital contention. He does not paint images, he paints paintings; his technical uprightness has the same source of his fascination by the pictorial surfaces where differences and resemblances take place."--P. 184
Print Book, Portuguese, 2011
Editora C/Arte, Belo Horizonte, 2011