Cagnaccio di San Pietro

Background

Di San Pietro was born in Desenzano del Garda, Italy, on January 14, 1897.

Education

Cagnaccio di San Pietro received his artistic training at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia. There he studied under Ettore Tito, an Italian artist particularly known for his paintings of contemporary life and landscapes.

Career

Di San Pietro's early artworks were in a Futurist style. However, by the early 1920s, he had adopted a very smoothly brushed, nearly photographic style. His paintings, which included portraits, scenes of popular life, nudes, still lifes, and religious pictures, showed the influence of the German painters of the New Objectivity.

One of his best-known artworks, After the Orgy (1928), depicted three nude women, conspicuously the same model in three different poses, asleep on a floor littered with bottles of wine, playing cards and cigarettes. It had "more depressing than titillating" effect.

The clinical realism of this oeuvre is also seen in his still lifes. They often represent crabs, lobsters, or glass objects that he painted with chilly accuracy. His health disintegrated in the 1940s, and he ceased painting.

Achievements

• Cagnaccio di San Pietro was a prominent artist of the 20th century. During his career, he managed to create a great number of well-known works, such as Money first, Portrait of Signora Vighi, Bambina, Fishermans, Zoologia, etc.

Works

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  • After the Orgy

  • Untitled

  • Bambino sul lettino

  • Money first

  • La bolla di sapone

  • Il trionfo dello spirito sulla materia

  • Natura morta con zucca

  • Zoologia

  • Donna allo Specchio

  • Fishermans

  • Bambina

  • Le lacrime della cipolla

  • Portrait of Signora Vighi

  • Woman at the Mirror

  • L’Alzana

  • unknown title

  • Still-life with Lobster and Radishes

  • Untitled

  • Ritratto di bambina (Liliana)

  • La tempesta (Terribile attesa)

  • Ultime luci

  • Il Ponte Nuovo

  • Controluce, Zattere

  • Natura morta con pesci

  • Caffè Bergamini

  • Tramonto dai Gesuati

  • Il pescivendolo

  • Natura morta con frutta

  • Consummatum est

  • Nana pensierosa

  • Nu de dos

References

• Realism Detailed introduction to realism with 30 photographs plus timeline of most important political, cultural, scientific and sporting events.
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