Artist: Lucio Fontana (1899 - 1968)
Nationality: Italian
Movement: Abstract Art
Media: Painting
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Biography:
Lucio Fontana studied at the Brera Academy in Milan. In 1935 signed the First Manifesto of Italian Abstract Art, focusing on sculpture until after World War II. His paintings were created with a very restricted color palette, and in 1946 he painted a series of paintings only with shades of white. Fontana created Spatialism in 1947, a style of Minimalist art in which a painted canvas is cut to add dimension. Fontana’s work was influential in the development of abstract and conceptual art.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (40)
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Lucio Fontana - Spatial Concept- Ellipse 1967 lacquer on wood Norton Museum of Art Italian
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Lucio Fontana - Spatial Concept: Expectations 1959 oil on slashed canva The Museum of Modern Art Italian
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Lucio Fontana - Spatial Concept-Expectation 1965 oil on canvas Milwaukee Art Museum Italian
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Anonymous, Fontana Girl, Sunkist, Fontana Citrus Assn., Fontana, California, circa 1930 - 1940
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Anonymous, Boyhood Brand Grapefruit, Fontana Land Company, Fontana, California, circa 1930 - 1940
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Geraldo Fontana, The Nativity, 1579
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Eugene Berman, La Fontana, 19th - 20th century
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Giambattista Fontana, The Scourging of Christ, 16th century
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Giambattista Fontana, St John the Baptist Preaching, 16th century
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Alberto Fontana, Warriors with their horses, 16th century
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Pietro Fontana, Corinna Poetessa, 18th - 19th century
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Pietro Fontana, Woman at a Cradle with three Children, after Canova, 18 - 19th century
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© 2002 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn ; Joseph Beuys, German,
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Giambattista Fontana, The Defeat of the Antemnaeans, pl.16 from the series The Story of Romulus and Remus, 1575
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Giambattista Fontana, Romulus Rescues His Brothers, pl.5 from the series The Story of Romulus and Remus, 1575
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Giambattista Fontana, The Rape of the Sabine Women, pl.12 from the series The Story of Romulus and Remus, 1575
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Monogramist F. G., Alexander Treating with Talestris, the Queen of the Amazons, after Alberto Fontana, 16th century
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Giambattista Fontana, The Brothers Celebrate the Feast of Pan, pl.4 from the series The Story of Romulus and Remus, 1575
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Giambattista Fontana, Romulus Subjugates the Fidenaeans, pl. 25 from the series The Story of Romulus and Remus, 16th century
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Giambattista Fontana, Romulus and Remus Exposed on the Tiber , pl .2 from the series The Story of Romulus and Remus, 1575
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Giambattista Fontana, Romulus Offers a Sacrifice to Herakles, pl.10 from the series The Story of Romulus and Remus, 1575
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Giambattista Fontana, Romulus Takes the City of Caenina, pl.14 from the series The Story of Romulus and Remus, 1575
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Giambattista Fontana, The Romans Entering the City of the Crustumerians, pl.18 from the series The Story of Romulus and Remus, 1575
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Giambattista Fontana, Romulus Founds the City and Names it Rome, pl.9 from the series The Story of Romulus and Remus, 1575
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Giambattista Fontana, Romulus, Fighting the Sabines, Asks Jupiter For Help, pl.21 from the series The Story of Romulus and Remus, 1575
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Giulio Fontana, Caesaris Invicti Pia Relligionis Imago;..., An Allegory on Peace and Religion, late 16th century
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Giambattista Fontana, Amulius Dedicates His Daughter to the Goddess Vesta, pl.1 from the series The Story of Romulus and Remus, 1575
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Giambattista Fontana, Tarpeia is Crushed Under the Sabine Shields, pl.20 from the series The Story of Romulus and Remus, 16th century
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Giambattista Fontana, The Sabine Women Negotiate a Peace, pl.22 from the series The Story of Romulus and Remus, 16th century
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Giambattista Fontana, Upon Hersilia"s Entreaties, Peace is Made With the Sabines, pl.17 from the series The Story of Romulus and Remus, 1575
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A. Parboni, Veduta della Fontana dell"aqua Vergine di Trevi fatta condottare da M. Agrippa..., 1825
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Giambattista Fontana, Romulus and Remus Brought up by the Shepherd Faustulus, pl.3from the series The Story of Romulus and Remus, 1575
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Giambattista Fontana, Romulus Hangs Acron"s Armor on the Sacred Oak at the Capitol, pl.15 from the series The Story of Romulus and Remus, 1575
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Giambattista Fontana, Acron Attacks Romulus, Losing His Arms and His Life, pl.13 from the series The Story of Romulus and Remus, 1575
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Giambattista Fontana, Romulus Appoints the Centurions and Establishes Discipline, pl. 23 from the series The Story of Romulus and Remus, 16th century
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Artist: Attributed to Workshop of Orazio Fontana Title: Basin Date: 1575 - 1600 Medium: majolica
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Giambattista Fontana, Numitor, after the Death of Amulius, is Restored to the Throne of Alba, pl.6 from the series The Story of Romulus and Remus, 1575
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Giambattista Fontana, Having Given the Laws, He Choses Twelve Bodyguards and a Hundred Men Who Will Become Senators, pl.11 from the series The Story of Romulus and Remus, 1575
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Giambattista Fontana, The Brothers, Disputing Over the Founding of Rome, Consult the Augurs, pl.7 from the series The Story of Romulus and Remus, 1575
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Giambattista Fontana, Taitius Persuades Tarpeia to Open the Gates of the Capitol, pl.19 from the series The Story of Romulus and Remus, 1575

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (18)
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San Francisco Museum of Modern Art: 10 XX (Jujikan): Japanese Sound Art
These recorded sound pieces will play on a rotating basis during regular Museum hours in the Phyllis Wattis Theater, in the same format as last year's Jukebox program of recorded acoustic art and experimental music by John Cage, Alvin Curran, B...
Auckland Art Gallery: Pressing Flesh: Skin, Touch, Intimacy
The show includes Maria Abramovic and Ulay, Pat Brassington, Steve Carr, Derrick Cherrie, Julian Dashper, Jae Hoon Lee, Luise Fong, Lucio Fontana, Douglas Gordon, Terrence Handscomb, Heavy Industries, Andrea Low, Fiona Pardington, Peter Peryer, An...
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard: Timeless Beauty: Representing the Ideal in Neoclassical Drawing
Timeless Beauty examines the origins, development, and ultimate dissolution of the drawing style of extreme linearity favored by artists working in the Neoclassical mode. Beginning in the 1750’s and lasting into the early decades of the 1800’s, arti...
Visconti Tower, Camaver Kunsthaus: Ancient Palaces: Works by 22 International Artists
Among the aritsts selected is Luise Andersen. Andersen, who lives in Fontana, California, will exhibither work "Within Self". The artists write about the work, "Conflict within self... induced by haunting presence..and past..images appearing..push...
Kettle's Yard Gallery: Enrico Castellani Work from 1958 – 1970
In 1959, Castellani produced the first of his structured surfaces by putting nuts behind the canvas to form reliefs in order to emphasise the physicality of the surface as well as the dynamism of space. He went on to develop the technique that ...
Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College: Inaugural Exhibtion: S.O.S. - Scenes of Sounds
Inventions such as the telephone, tape recorder, loudspeaker, radio, Walkman, compact disk, internet radio, and computer-synthesized speech have produced dra...
Biennial of Ceramics in Contemporary Art: The Happy Face of Globalization
In an homage to the twentieth-century avantgarde tradition, some of the prime examples of which found an outlet in Albisola, the exhibition presents, along with the works of the invited artists, a selection of works in ceramics produced by ...
Photofusion Photography Centre: Eulogy to Beauty:
The concern here is not with nudity for its own sake, but with the aesthetics of beauty. However, it is a commonplace that the male - and indeed often female - gaze finds its target for this aesthetic in the feminine form, and the erotic represent...
Hayward Gallery: Force Fields: Phases of the Kinetic
Over 100 paintings, sculptures, drawings, installations and films made by artists from the 1920s to the early 1980s have been brought together by the exhibition’s curator Guy Brett. Among the seminal works in the show are Calder’s early mobiles, D...
Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst: Jacques Charlier: Belgian Aspects of Flanders
Charlier is a Belgian artist who is internationally appreciated. Until now the main impulses behind this have come from Flanders. In fact few curators in Wallonia support him. This fact provides the theme for the S.M.A.K. exhibition. Charlier wan...
van Gogh Museum: Go(gh) Modern
The presentation is subdivided into four sections, each featuring a different aspect of Van Gogh's affect on contemporary art, and includes paintings, sculptures and videos by various artists and movements - from Appel and Kiefer to Nauman and War...
Community Writers Association: PRODUCERS LEAVE HOLLYWOOD: PROVIDENCE LOOKS DIVINE FOR SPEAKERS AT NEW ENGLAND SCREENWRITERS CONFERENCE
This years award winning line-up of featured guests and key-note speakers include: writer D.C. Fontana (Star Trek, Star Trek: The Next Generation, The Waltons, High Chaparral, Bonanza, The Big Valley), independent producer Steve Fassler (Dunkin Donut...
De Appel: The World is Fine, We Ourselves Unfortunately Somewhat Less: Ritsaert ten Cate
With works by: Tiong Ang/Roy Villevoye, Erzebet Baerveldt, Francis Bacon, Jan Banning, Johannes Bosboom, Joost van den Broek, Ritsaert ten Cate, Merlijn Doomernik, Marlene Dumas, Albert Eckhout, Ger van Elk, Lucio Fontana, Dominique Ghesquière, Gi...
Centro Studi ed Archivio della Comunicazione: Alberto Sughi Retrospective Collection
Alberto Sughi was born in Cesena in 1928. A self-taught painter, by the end of his formative years he had become one of the greatest Italian artists of his generation. He started painting in the early 1950s, choosing realism in the debate between ...
Philadelphia Museum of Art: The Splendor of 18th-Century Rome
A strong sense of their city's cultural centrality encouraged Rome's 18th-century civic and religious leaders to construct or embellish numerous churches, palaces, fountains, public plazas (piazze), gardens and gallerie...
Palazzo Ducale: Arti and Architettura: 1900 - 2000
A utopian adventure, encroaching sometimes into “archisculpture”, whose protagonists – artists and architects from Kazimir Malevich to Vladmir Tatlin, from Antonio Sant'Elia to Giuseppe Terragni, from Ludwig Mies van der Rohe to Piet Mondrian, f...
Fondazione Prada: Enrico Castellani
Curated by Germano Celant, the exhibition has been organized in collaboration with the artist and contains about seventy works from public and private collections both in Italy and abroad. The exhibition is designed to offer an in-depth account of...
Foire Internationale d'Art Contemporain (FIAC), Paris Expo: 29th Annual Modern and Contemporary Art Fair Presents 170 Galleries from 23 Countries
This year’s fair includes a rigorous selection of international galleries, focusing on individual and thematic shows, new and previously unseen works, and site-specific installations. The fair will be divided into five sections: Solo Shows; Group ...

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