ARTIST: Luciano Spazzali (Italian, 1911 - 1997)
TITLE: Cacciatore (titled on verso)
MEDIUM: oil on board
CONDITION: Overall good. No visible inpaint under UV light. Wear to frame.
ART SIZE: 22 x 12 inches / 55 x 30 cm
FRAME SIZE: 27 x 18 inches / 68 x 45 cm
SIGNATURE: lower right
NAME VARIANTS: Luciano Spazalli
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BIOGRAPHY:
Born in 1911, Luciano Spazzali's creative work was largely influenced by the 1930s. The period of the 1930s is epitomised by the conflict between a number of political ideologies, including Marxist Socialism, Capitalist Democracy, and the Totalitarianism of both Communism and Fascism. Artistic output in the United States was heavily impacted at the time by the Great Depression, and a number of artists took to focusing on ideas of humility and the ordinary man. For the first time in US history, artists began to delve into political subjects and attempted to use their art to impact society. Themes such as poverty, lack of affordable housing, anti-lynching, anti-fascism, and workers' strikes were predominant in many artists' work. Surrealism continued to dominate in Europe, and had influence on an international scale. Artists such as Frida Kahlo and Diego Riviera in Mexico, worked to incorporate the ideas posed by Surrealism into their radical political philosophies, developing a new kind of magic realism. In the Soviet Union, Stalin's government required urgent funds to implement the rapid industrialisation demanded by the first Five Year Plan. It initiated a secret strategy to sell off treasures from the State Hermitage Museum in Leningrad (St. Petersburg), including a preliminary list of two hundred and fifty priceless paintings by the Old Masters, a number of which found their way to the collection of Andrew Mellon via the New York based art dealing company, Knoedler. The decade took a threatening turn with the birth of National Socialism in Germany, followed by Adolf Hitler's rise to power in 1933. By the end of the 1930s, the Second World War had begun; which preoccupied both artists and the global population.