The Labronico Group is the name of a group of locals and important artists active since 1920.
The group grew out of a meeting held in Livorno, 15 July 1920 and attended by many artists of Livorno, including Baracchini Adriano Caputi, Beppe Guzzi, John March, Renato Natali, John Zannacchini, Michelozzi Corrado, Gino Romiti, Gastone Razzaghi Ferruccio Rontini, Renucci Renucci, Alberto Zampieri and others. The purpose of the group was to enhance the art of Leghorn. Other prominent members of the group were Ulvi Liege, Plinio Nomellini, Cafiero Filippelli, John Lomi, Giulio Ghelarducci, Manlio Martinelli, Fioravanti Umberto and Carlo Domenici. The group already in his early years he organized exhibitions internationally and nationally, such as the International Art Exhibition in San Remo and the 90th Exhibition of the Amateurs and Students of Rome (1921). Gino Romiti, who was president of the group from 1943 to 1967, gave the impression traditional artistic partnership, following the teachings of the great master labronico Giovanni Fattori. As early as 1951, however, with the arrival of Voltolino Fontani, artist experimenter close to the Italian and European avant-garde, had joined the trend towards more conservative impulse innovator who paved the way for many artists associated with less post-Macchiaioli. The 1920 was a year marked forever, for better or for worse, the art world Leghorn.
The news of the untimely death of Mario Puccini (which took place in Florence June 18, 1920 after a short stay in hospital following a lung infection neglected) as a boulder fell on the Coffee Bardi, known haunt of artists of Livorno since 1908.
Among those who frequent the Coffee, there were painters like Welcome Welcome, Corrado Michelozzi, Renato Natali, Gino Romiti, Mario Cocchi, Oscar Ghiglia, John Bartolena, John March, Gastone Razzaghi (and many others), but also intellectuals, musicians, writers, and we can not forget the photographer Bruno Miniati. The coffee was, in short, a meeting place where artists and intellectuals exchanged, in total freedom, ideas, experiences, anecdotes, a place where he was made, even with fervent conceptual clashes, a fringe characters who have given birth to a little later to a group that still represents a landmark in the artistic culture of our city, namely the Group Labronico who will celebrate 90 years now.
The departure, just 51 years, Mario Puccini, somewhat frail and unfortunate, perhaps going on when we could see a positive turning point in his career. Close to the teachings of factors, which encouraged him and for which the young Mario always feed a total admiration Welcome Welcome friend, Oscar Ghiglia and Llewelyn Lloyd who support him in his rise artistic expression of a sentiment that is bound to experience the "stain" this charming colors and approached German Expressionism, described by critics as the "Van Gogh Leghorn" but also next to the concept of division in Tuscany. I agree with those who preceded me, in saying that although approaching Mario Puccini to these currents will always be a painter in its own right, he has been able, with a technique of all personnel, commending the city of Livorno, which was deeply rooted and from which it detaches itself unwillingly.
aftermath of his death the friends of the Cafe Bardi can not remember that, with regret, as an icon of painting from life, of landscape painting palette table and seeing it again with the sea in the morning the sun is high, at noon the evening at sunset, and none of them can forget the poverty in which this artist has lived and how little helpless soul glory in life to have enjoyed. In part, these were the official reasons why some friends, colleagues, patrons Coffee Bardi decided to give life to an artistic movement that in some way always remember the figure of his friend Mario, who tended to the appreciation of Leghorn, but above all that would do justice to the unjustly forgotten artists. So on July 15, 1920 15 painters (in alphabetical order: Baracchini-Caputi, Cavagnaro, Cipriani, Cognetti, Guzzi, March, Michelozzi, Natali, Razzaghi, Renucci, Romanelli, Romiti, Rontini, Zampieri, Zannacchini) and the sculptor (Tarrini ) gathered at the studio of Gino Romiti, and after a heated debate on the appropriate name to be given the Group was born as the first commitment Labronico that promised to make every effort to ensure that the body of the painter Mario Puccini was interred in the memorial chapel of Montenero (which happened, for bureaucratic reasons, until September of 1987, thanks to the continuing desire and interests of members of the group) The founders of the group established, in addition to the fundamental purposes of above, some points to which members should strictly abide by, offering to organize at least one exhibition a year and decided to organize the first exhibition of the Group in a hall of "Palace Hotel", which was open from August 12 to September 21, 1920 .
However, we have shed light on an artistic reality, a cultural movement that was present for some time in Livorno, in other words it was time for artists called the "branch", who attended the coffee Bardi to consolidate and formalize in a sense the experience up to that moment in a coffee sort of existing associations. In other words, the artists felt the need to be recognized as an active, integral part of artistic life, so it is true that seized the opportunity to honor the death of Mario Puccini in founding the group, but it is also true that this sad event was just one more reason for a union of purpose, will and feelings that could only lead to an association of a certain artistic level.
said that a question arises spontaneously. Some another month before this great disappearance should shake the souls and minds of the artists in this industry so much that they said and did after the death of Mario Puccini. In Paris, died January 25 was only 36 for tuberculous meningitis Amedeo Modigliani , having led a controversial and turbulent marked by poor health since childhood. The news of the death of Modigliani was spread by the Official Gazette on January 27 with a terse statement, in the days following the reactions of friends in the Cafe Bardi were almost non-existent, no tribute to the artist, nothing. That they had forgotten? It 's true Amedeo did not show up in the city for some time, but How can I forget someone like Dedo? Or should I say Modi? E 'already since everyone now Amedeo Modigliani sailed from Livorno as Dedo and died in Paris as Modi. It is not my interest here quibble about the various motivations that led the criticism of time to make this distinction between the young student from a good family Amedeo, Modigliani educated eccentric who preferred to look himself in Paris, but rather to understand, without any pretense , what led to this deep emotional detachment between old friends and the artist Modi. Surely I can not think that friends would see the genius in Amadeus of lawlessness and that they were convinced that his art They were not the result of distorted perceptions from consumption of alcohol and hashish.
E 'is now indisputable that the abuse of drugs by Modigliani was the result of an inner malaise that made him unhappy and impatient, but at the same time emphasized, sometimes exalted, but certainly did not create some artistic visions that were already present in him as a genius. Probably the only real reason that made Amedeo Modigliani and unique for this has been misunderstood because it was too ahead of its time, especially in its Livorno, land still tied to landscape painting in which he was reflected. Modigliani is that Puccini had a dramatic life, and both suffer of existential problems, suffer from loneliness and feel misunderstood, but the people from Livorno to their disappearance and is bound to the second, and most had never had to take the side of someone surely would have preferred to Puccini Modigliani, Livorno was not yet ready for a reading of avant-garde the works of Amedeo who also had never denied his love for a city that had marginalized. Mario Puccini for all embodied a sentiment inspired by the figurative patterns of derivation macchiaiola although, as was widely said, showing the technical characteristics of outstanding coloristic richness and extraordinary beauty such as customs cleared completely from certain classifications of gender. This does not mean I believe that Amedeo Modigliani was forgotten, shunned or ridiculed, as many would have thought, probably not because it was understood he "was over" did not exist in the local reading tools for a form of art, created by international influences, and which can reduce and overcome certain barriers hitherto considered the founding of certain artistic movements.
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