Marrone
1974 · Paint on sicofoil
116.9 × 116.9 cm (46 × 46 in.)
Art Institute of Chicago
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Carla Accardi
Italian, 1924
Trapani, Italy
PaintingGeometric AbstractionAbstract Art
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2
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11
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4
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- • Geometric Abstraction
- • Abstract Art
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Carla Accardi was an Italian painter and pioneer of abstraction in postwar Italy. Working primarily in oil on canvas, she developed a distinctive approach to geometric abstraction that emphasized luminosity and chromatic relationships rather than rigid form. Active from the 1940s onward, she was instrumental in establishing abstract painting in Italy during a period when figurative work dominated the cultural landscape. Her work remains central to understanding the emergence of non-representational practice in European modernism.
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Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
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Museum of Modern Art
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Art Institute of Chicago
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