Mario Bardi

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Mario Bardi
Mario Bardi.jpg
BornJanuary 1922
Palermo, Sicily, Italy
Died7 September 1998
Milan
Known forpaintings, design
Websitemariobardi.it

Mario Bardi (January 1922 – 7 September 1998) was an Italian Realist painter. He was born in Palermo, in the Mediterranean island of Sicily in southern Italy, in January 1922.

In 1947 he gave up his studies in engineering and went to the Accademia di Belle Arti di Palermo, where he graduated in 1951.[1] In the same year he moved to Aosta, in Val d'Aosta in north-west Italy. In 1954 he was in Turin, in Piemonte.[2]:243 He moved to Milan, in Lombardy in northern Italy, in the early 1960s. Bardi won the in 1963 and the in 1964 and again in 1966.[1] He died in Milan of a stroke on 7 September 1998.[3][4]

The Sicilian writer Leonardo Sciascia wrote of Bardi: "there is nothing in his painting which Sicily cannot explain".[a][2]:243

Notes[]

  1. ^ "Non c'è niente nella sua pittura che la Sicilia non possa spiegare".

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b Bardi Mario (in Italian). Galleria del Premio Suzzara. Accessed December 2015.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b [s.n.] (1984). Storia dell'arte in Sicilia, volume 2 (in Italian). Palermo: Edizioni del Sole.
  3. ^ Sveva Alagna (24 June 2006). L' Isola di Mario Bardi nella retrospettiva inaugurata alla Galleria 61 (in Italian). La Repubblica. Accessed December 2015.
  4. ^ Raffaele De Grada (8 September 1998). E' morto Mario Bardi Pittore di luci e colori porto' la Sicilia a Milano (in Italian). Corriere della Sera. Accessed December 2015.
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