Cosimo D’Amico: from the realism to hyper-realism

Authors

  • Giuseppina Vara

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.19229/2464-9309/1192017

Keywords:

painting, hyperrealism, portraits

Abstract

The Author introduces Cosimo D’Amico, a still little-known Sicilian painter whose technical mastery can be declined in heterogeneous and ever-new genres and pictorial imageries, ranging from metaphysical scenes to material landscapes, from ambiguous figures to portraits so real that they look alive.

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Author Biography

Giuseppina Vara

Historian of art and curator of exibition, she obtained the Master's Degree in History of Art at the 'Sapienza' University of Roma. Specializes in the history of contemporary art with particular attention to museum curating and museum education. She has had professional experience at the Quirinale stables, the Palazzo delle Esposizioni and the National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rome.
E-mail: giuseppina.vara@gmail.com

References

Benjamin, W. (1936), Das Kunstwerk im Zeitalter seiner technischen Reproduzierbarkeit, Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt.

Bois, Y. A., Buchloh, B. H. D., Foster, H. and Krauss, R. (2004), Art since 1900 – Modernism, Antimodernism, Postmodernism, Thames & Hudson, London; it. tr. (2010), Arte dal 1900 – Modernismo Antimodernismo Postmodernismo, Zanichelli Editore, Bologna.

Detheridge, A. (2012), Scultori della speranza. L’arte nel contesto della globalizzazione, Einaudi, Torino.

Krauss, R. E. (1985), The Originality of the Avant-Garde and Other Modernist Myths, the MIT Press, Cambridge (MA).

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Published

30-06-2017

How to Cite

Vara, G. (2017) “Cosimo D’Amico: from the realism to hyper-realism”, AGATHÓN | International Journal of Architecture, Art and Design, 1(online), pp. 123–128. doi: 10.19229/2464-9309/1192017.
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