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In 1980 and 1981 he worked on Francesco Clemente Pinxit, a series of twenty-four gouaches on antique hand-made rag paper, in collaboration with miniature painters from Orissa and Jaipur. [1] [3] [7] : 88 In 1982 he moved to New York City. [8]. He lives in Greenwich Village. [9]
Emerging on the New York art scene in the 1980s, Clemente was recognized as part of the new generation of figurative painters labeled Neo-Expressionists, and the peripatetic Italian painters known as the Transavanguardia.
29 de abr. de 2024 · Francesco Clemente (born March 23, 1952, Naples, Italy) is an Italian painter and draftsman whose dramatic figural imagery was a major component in the revitalization of Italian art beginning in the 1980s.
Viajó a Nueva York por vez primera en 1980 y, dos años más tarde, casado y padre de familia, se instaló allí y abrió un estudio. En 1982 realiza su primera gran pintura al fresco, los murales de la piscina del doctor Huvert Burda. Ese mismo año participó en documenta 7 de Kassel.
He was among the principal figures in the Italian Transavanguardia movement of the 1980s, which was characterized by a rejection of Formalism and conceptual art and a return to figurative art and Symbolism.
In the early 1980s, Clemente had incorporated Indian influences into his work and begun to become a fixture on the New York City art scene and his work began to more clearly incorporate themes of violence, sexuality, and other distortions.
Categorized as a Neo-Expressionist during the 1980s, Clemente has largely shunned the restrictive label of movements and styles. Seeking various outlets for his creativity, in 1998 he produced around 200 original works for director Alfonso Cuaròn’s film Great Expectations.
