Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo

Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo (28 July 1868 – 14 June 1907) was an Italian divisionist painter. He was born and died in Volpedo, in the Piedmont region of northern Italy.

Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo
Born(1868-07-28)July 28, 1868
Volpedo, Piedmont, Kingdom of Italy
DiedJune 14, 1907(1907-06-14) (aged 38)
Volpedo
EducationAcademy of Brera, Academy of Fine Arts of Florence
Known forPainting
Notable work
  • Il quarto stato (1898-1901)
  • Lo specchio della vita (E ciò che l’una fa e l’altre fanno) (1895-1898)[1]
  • Idillio primaverile (1896-1901)[2]
StyleNeo-impressionism
MovementDivisionism, Symbolism, Realism
Spouse(s)Teresa Bidone

Pellizza was a pupil of Pio Sanquirico. He used a divisionist technique in which a painting is created by juxtaposing small dots of paint according to specific color theory.

Biography

Paintings

The Fourth Estate
Il Quarto Stato, Museo del Novecento, Milan (1898-1901)

His most famous work, The Fourth Estate ("Il Quarto Stato") (1901), has become a well-known symbol for progressive and socialist causes in Italy, and throughout Europe. The painting is shown during the opening credits of Bernardo Bertolucci's film 1900 and is currently housed at the Museo del Novecento in Milan.[3] An earlier version is held in the Pinacoteca di Brera.

Pellizza hanged himself in 1907, after the deaths of his wife and son.[4]

  • La Processione (The Procession), 1894-1895
  • Idillio primaverile (Spring Idyll), 1896-1901
  • Passeggiata amorosa (Amorous walk), 1901-1902
  • Il Sole (The Sun), 1904

References
  1. "Capolavori dei Musei di Torino - Lo specchio della vita di Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo". ArTo Blog (in Italian). Retrieved 3 July 2018.
  2. "Idillio primaverile". Pellizza da Volpedo (in Italian). Retrieved 3 July 2018.
  3. "Il Quarto Stato - In Collezione". Museo del Novecento (in Italian). Retrieved 3 July 2018.
  4. About Art History - Artists Who Committed Suicide


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