Atanasio soldati biography
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Soldati Atanasio
Parma, 1896 – Parma, 1953
Atanasio Soldati was an Italian painter who in the 1930s became a central figure in Italian abstractionism.
Atanasio was trained in Parma in the 1920s as an architect.
Atanasio soldati biography
In 1925 he moved to Milan, where he met the abstractionists Mario Radice and Mauro Reggiani, who influenced his pictorial production hitherto linked to the purist figurative.
In 1931 he held a solo exhibition at the Il Milione gallery where he exhibited again the following year together with Bogliardi and Ghiringhelli.
By attending the gallery, he got to know Léger, who led him to confront Cubism and to develop a language that starts precisely from geometric shapes, with vivid and non-nuanced colors, characterized by exact limits.
For Soldati abstract painting is the liberation of the image from figurative adherence; lines, colors and surprises express drama and feeling on the same level without any kind of superstructure.
It is a painting, that of Sold