
Gastone Novelli
Unusual Escape
1967
Gastone Novelli
1960
Gastone Novelli was a preeminent Italian artist of the 1950s and 60s, noted for his highly personal and poetic visual vocabulary. The major manifestation of his move beyond Informel aesthetics in 1960, as widely cited in the literature, was One of the Galleries of the Museum, a testamentary gift to the Peggy Guggenheim Collection by Giuseppina Araldi Guinetti. Here Novelli passed from earlier vigorous gestures to more uniform color relationships, organized in square shapes. The lyricism of Cy Twombly’s calligraphy and Paul Klee’s childlike visions were to Novelli vital influences. He returned to the basics of the creative process, as if plucking elements from primordial chaos. This evokes automatic writing in Surrealism and explorations of the unconscious in Tachisme.
Artist | Gastone Novelli |
Original Title | Una delle sale del museo |
Date | 1960 |
Medium | Mixed media on canvas |
Dimensions | 135 x 135 cm |
Credit line | Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York. Gift, Fondazione Araldi Guinetti |
Accession | 2011.46 |
Collection | Acquisitions |
Type | Mixed media |
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Gastone Novelli
1967
Gastone Novelli
1968
Gastone Novelli
1967
Gastone Novelli
1967