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Today I bring you a little about the life of an Italian painter who managed to break the closed circle maintained by impressionist painters in France, I am talking about Frederico Zandomeneghi, the great Italian impressionist who fought to get the attention of a public that refinedly only saw French impressionism. Come with me to learn a little about the life and work of this exemplary artist.
Frederico Zandomeneghi was born in Venice in 1941. At an early age, he has linked to the art world thanks to the profession of his father, who worked as a sculptor and then moved to Florence to study.
After a few years, he settled in the city of painting Paris, where he devoted himself to studying the novel art of impressionism that was fashionable, to say the least colloquially, and dedicated much of his life to attract attention with his technique.
Already in the year 1874 is the date in which it is possible to determine the beginning of the impressionist period thanks to multiple exhibitions the city of Paris, like all art this was the one that obtained the attention and the sufficient study to continue innovating. Impressionism stands out in its golden age by the studies of light and the different temperatures to which they reacted with the color directly in the course of a day or even the night.
But it was not until 1879 when Frederico Zandomeneghi exhibited in several museums where he began to have notoriety by the critics of the time, exhibiting alongside renowned painters such as Degas.
His characteristic way of painting within impressionism gave him immediate popularity, his cheerful, graceful and elegant themes gave him privilege over a large number of impressionist painters who dedicated their muse to things luxuries and tenebrous in many aspects.
Not only did he conquer France and other European countries, he managed to travel to the United States where his success was resounding, but it was never enough to make a living from painting, so he devoted efforts to get extra work as an illustrator for some art magazines that gave him enough income to support himself.
The course followed by Frederico Zandomeneghi in his artistic life was the most successful because in Florence was linked to a youthful artistic movement that although it did not go very far by his little diplomacy with academicism and by various currents imposed by the circles of fine arts, learned enough to value the nascent techniques that seized Paris, This allowed him to form as an impressionist being close to and friends with painters such as Monet, Pizarro, Sisley, Renoir, Berta Morisot and Eva Gonzales, and although at first he felt fully identified with Degás who was dedicated to painting dancers, nudes and nocturnal taverns he managed to slip away from that influence to create his own personal stamp.
Impressionism in particular seems to me to be one of the most beautiful pictorial styles that there is especially for his deep study of light and color, managed at the time to compete with photography that was born almost at the same time as impressionism, achieving better results and even sensations of photography that we can only appreciate today with color photography.
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