Local painters
Bolivar Patalano
Luigi De Angelis
Francesco De Angelis
Aniellantonio Mascolo
Vincenzo Funiciello
Michele Cocchia
Clementina Petroni
Bolivar Patalano
He was born in Forio on 2/14/1901 from a family of poets and patriots, the tenth of fourteen children. At the age of twenty, he emigrated to the United States where he does different trades to live honestly. Following a serious accident he is interned in a psychiatric hospital where learns to model statues with crumbs of bread, soap and potatoes. Meanwhile, the deceased father and brothers, believing him dead, have confiscated also his share of the inheritance. Other properties end up in the Church. He returned to Forio in 1951 in the period in which artists and intellectuals flock there from all parts of the world that crown the great Anglo-American poet WH Auden, who had elected to his home after the end of World War II. To experience he began painting in the abstract, he exhibited his paintings in the entrance hall of the palace in Corso Umberto I, but he does not sell because it was too forward of his countrymen. He changes kind, to the figurative one, he dedicates himself to portraits, covers all of those who want to put care to give a psychological dimension to the images. He works tirelessly and so now we have a never-ending gallery of portraits of great and small, but all interesting, which then crowded Forio. His art can be defined as material in ways that critics have called "action painting". Recently he has resumed happily primitive abstract ways. He died in 1981.
Luigi De Angelis
He was a primitive artist who aspired to the local traditions and consecrated by popular customs. In his works idealized reality, and his characters were conceived as shepherds going about daily activities. He is able to express the essence of the island of Ischia, with a manner full of color and merriment.
Francesco De Angelis
Francesco took his first steps in painting under the guidance of his father Luigi. Soon taking over the art, on canvas he expresses his repressed feelings, his visions, his dreams. The paintings show a very high poetry that puts them on par with the best works of metaphysical painting.
Aniellantonio Mascolo
He was born in iIschia in 1903. At the age of 20 he worked as carpenter, in 1929 he left to Siena, registered at the Academy in plastic and ornamental design. Plastic was a passion for him and so he decided to become a sculptor. The Mascolo in his work told the story of the people. In his woodcuts is a religious geometry, a solemn composure.
Vincenzo Funiciello
He was born in Ischia in 1905, he returned to the school of instinctive painters whose Ischia was rich. Son of a large family that could not send him to study, Funiciello remembered with gratitude the Ricchizzi landscape painter who discovered his interest and was his disinterested teacher. Funiciello no longer used the brushes, when in Berlin, where he returned after the war, he saw on the floor of a tailor a wealth of colors in the scrap of cloth, took the desire to use what awaited the broom, was born the idea to what the painting was supposed to be the island novelty: the collage. He wrote his paintings with scraps of cloth, a big success which ensured a quiet comfort.
His landscapes and interiors, where the agreement of mosaic colors of cloth echoing tones look forward to his last way a painter with brushes, compounds with a rigorous perspective that cost him much more than painting in the traditional way.
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