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MARINI Marino
Marino Marini was born in Pistoia in 1901, Italy. He began his fine arts
career in Florence, where he studied painting, graphic techniques and
sculpture at the Accademia di Belle Arti. Between 1929 and 1940, Marini
taught at the art school in Monza. He was made Professor of Sculpture at the
Brera Academy in Milan in 1940, for although he had begun his career
primarily as a painter, by 1931 he had turned to sculpture, the medium for
which he is now best known. However, Marini prepared for his sculptured
pieces by making numerous sketches in many media-pen drawings, lithographs,
gouaches, and oil paintings. His three-dimensional sculptures are done in
plaster, wood, or bronze, and occasionally in stone.
By using a great variety of different media, Marini expresses emotions
through color, form, and with a plasticity that in its polychromatic range
and its archaic simplicity of shape goes back through the centuries to very
early Chinese figurines and Etruscan or Greco-Roman sculpture. His colors
are bright: dark wine-reds, purples, and mottled whites, or deep blues,
grays, and browns. His themes are few: portrait heads, female figures, and
the horse or horse and rider. Marini's works are noble, rhythmic, and
strikingly dynamic. Since 1955 he has become more and more dramatic,
roughening the surfaces of his sculptured pieces, distorting their masses,
and creating etchings and lithographs as well as paintings with a style, a
purity of line that is extremely moving.
He died in 1980.
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