Enza Di Pentima - Birds (1975)
oil on canvas (70x50)
detail

Enza Di Pentima - paintress

Biographical Notes and
Bibliography
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Mrs. Enza Di Pentima was born in Abruzzo - Italy - in 1925, in Pianella, an ancient Vestino centre.
Her passion for painting, timidly cultivated in her childhood, explodes in Pescara, where she moved to for study reasons, she remains fascinared by the artworks of master Basilio Cascella and his sons Tommaso Michele and Gioacchino; in fact, she has the opportunity know and appreciate their artworks in the "Artistic Factory of Painting", an art workshop which was a point of reference for many young artists of that period (currently it has become the Civic Museum dedicated to "Basilio Cascella").
Her great artistic turn occurs in 1955 when, pushed by a strong missionary feeling, she undertakes a long trip through Europe and North Africa and reach, as a pilgrim, the Holy Land. Such experience has strongly influenced many of her artworks, in which you can find suggestive African and Arabic landscapes. Using various techniques, but all of them permeated by her distinct artistic sensibility, she is able to wonderfully gather the bright vibrations of the landscape, the figure, of the represented object with rapid and dense brush strokes full of colour.
In the following years, despite the recognitions of the critique, she feels the need to complete her artistic formation at the Accademy of Fine Arts in Venice in which, thanks to the teachings of the masters Virgilio Guidi, Bruno Saetti and Luigina De Grandis, she deepens the use and the knowledge of the techniques. Being that such masters had recognized in her the not common expressive originality, they preferred to support her natural talent without imposing the use of the classic methods.
During her trips around Italy and other foreign countries she has numerous occasions to know and frequent other artists with whom exchange opinions and experiences. Among the most important experiences, there is the meeting with master Giorgio Morandi, with whom she establishes a relationship of profound friendship, Giorgio De Chirico, who she often used to meet in the Art Caf?s in Montecatini Terme to talk over art matters, and Renato Guttuso that in 1966 takes part to the inauguration of her/his art exhibition in Taranto. During her stays in Paris she meets master Pablo Picasso as well as the russian master Marc Chagall.


Bibliography

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Mario Monteverdi
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