Barbara (painter)
| Olga Biglieri | |
|---|---|
 "Barbara" | |
| Born |
15 March 1915 Mortara |
| Died |
2002 (aged 86–87) Rome |
| Nationality | Italy |
| Spouse(s) | Ignatius Scurto |
| Children | three |
Olga Biglieri Scurto or Barbara (15 March 1915 – 2002) was an Italian Futurist painter and aviator. She was one of the three women Aeropittura painter (with Regina Cassolo Bracchi and Benedetta Cappa).[1]
Life
Biglieri was born in Mortara, Lombardy on 15 March 1915. She started to paint at the age of eleven.[2] She trained to be an early pilot in Italy.[3]
She became associated with the Futurist painters and her work was acclaimed by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti who was the movements founder. He saw her paintings by chance in a shop window.[2]
She worked under the name of Barbara when painting and she included planes in her Aeropittura paintings. For instance her 1939 painting Aeropittura di città was included in the 22nd Venice Biennale. That painting's main subject is a plane but her composition fades into two dimensional shapes.[3] Her paintings are important as they record this female aeropainter found a place in the classic man/machine futurist image to create a "superdonna" or woman/machine.[4]
She married the poet and writer, Ignatius Scurto, in 1939 and she had to care for their children during the second world war. Her husband died in 1954.[2]
Legacy
In 2009 one of her works was included in an exhibition in New York.[3]
References
- ↑ "Futurismo: e' morta Biglieri, 'aeropittore' con Marinetti. Aveva 86 anni, fu la prima donna aviatrice".
- 1 2 3 4 "Barbara (Olga Biglieri), 150anni.it, Retrieved 31 January 2017
- 1 2 3 Furiste: Women in Art and Literature, Giancarlo Carpi, Casa Italiana Zerilli - Marimò, New York, 2009, Retrieved 21 January 2017
- ↑ Elza Adamowicz; Simona Storchi (1 November 2015). Back to the Futurists: The avant-garde and its legacy. Manchester University Press. p. 35. ISBN 978-1-5261-0200-3.
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