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The artist Francesco Clemente
Born 1952, Napoli, Italy.
Born 1952, Napoli, Italy.
Style and technique of the artist: Painting, Transavantgarde, Documenta Kassel, Venice Biennale,
Francesco Clemente has, since the 1980s, been a leading artist in the international revival of expressionist figure painting and sculpture. Clemente’s subjects—rooted in both the physical and the surreal, spiritual worlds—create a vast body of work that appeals to diverse audiences. Clemente draws upon a pan-historic web of impulses, mediating among the myriad cultures of the ancient Mediterranean, Byzantium, Europe, India and America.
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Journey, 1994-95. Pastel on paper
Francesco Clemente was born in Naples, Italy, in 1952, and since the 1970s, has produced a rich and complex body of work. His expressive portrayal of the human body and use of traditional materials departed radically from the Conceptualist aesthetic that dominated the late 1960s and 1970s…
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