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Transavanguardia
Italian painters of the late 1970s and 1980s, named by Achille Bonito Oliva, who returned to myth, figuration and colour after Conceptual art.
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In late-1970s Italy the most admired recent art was Arte Povera and Conceptual work, cool and spare. A younger group returned to colour, myth and figures. The critic Achille Bonito Oliva named them the Transavanguardia in an article of 1979, arguing that artists could now roam freely across styles and periods instead of marching forward, and featured them in the young artists' section of the 1980 Venice Biennale.
The five usually named share an attitude more than a look. Sandro Chia painted bulky heroes drawing on Futurist and interwar Italian styles, as in The Idleness of Sisyphus (1981). Francesco Clemente, dividing his time between Italy, India and New York, made dreamlike self-portraits in watercolour, fresco and pastel. Enzo Cucchi drew apocalyptic landscapes of his native Marche; Mimmo Paladino evoked archaic masks and figures in paint and bronze; Nicola De Maria covered canvases and walls with lyrical colour.
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