Ardengo Soffici
Italian writer
Ardengo Soffici (7 April 1879 – 19 August 1964) was an Italian writer, painter, poet, sculptor and intellectual. Soffici acted as a crucial link between Italian and French avant-garde art in the early 20th century.2
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Born Apr 7, 1879, died Aug 19, 1964.1
About
Based in Florence, he introduced Impressionism and Cubism to Italy after living in Paris, later engaging with Futurism before developing his own stylistic path. As a writer and critic for La Voce and Lacerba, he played a key role in the modernisation of Italian art. He was a prolific writer and is known for works such as BÏF§ZF+18: Simultaneities and Lyric Chemisms (1919), in which he explored typography, parole in libertà (words-in-freedom) and Cubist poetry.
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Companies
Early life and education
Soffici was born in Rignano sull'Arno, near Florence. In 1893 his family moved to the latter city, where he studied at the Accademia from 1897 and later at the Scuola Libera del Nudo of the academy.
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Career
Occupation: art critic, illustrator, poet, painter, artist, writer.4
In 1900 he moved from Florence to Paris, where he lived for seven years and worked for Symbolist journals. While in Paris, during his time at the Bateau-Lavoir, he became acquainted with Braque, Derain, Picasso, Juan Gris and Apollinaire.
On returning to Italy in 1907, Soffici settled in Poggio a Caiano in the countryside near Florence (where he lived for the rest of his life) and wrote articles on modern artists for the first issue of the political and cultural magazine La Voce.
In 1910 he organised an exhibition of Impressionist painting in Florence in association with La Voce, devoting an entire room to the sculptor Medardo Rosso.
In August 1911 he wrote an article in La Voce on Picasso and Braque, which probably influenced the Futurists in the direction of Cubism. At this time Soffici considered Cubism to be an extension of the partial revolution of the Impressionists. In 1912-1913 Soffici painted in a Cubist style.
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Personal life
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