Bice Lazzari

Bice Lazzari
Self-portrait, 1929
Born	(1900-11-15)November 15, 1900
Died	November 13, 1981(1981-11-13) (aged 80)
Resting place	Quero, Italy
Spouse	Diego Rosa
Nationality	Italian
Field	Oil painting
Training	Benedetto Marcello Conservatory; lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts

Bice Lazzari (15 November 1900 - 13 November 1981) was an Italian painter.

Early life

Beatrice (Bice) Lazzari was born to Lorenzo (Luciano) Lazzari and Francesca Rinaldo. She was the second of three sisters, the youngest of whom, Onorina (Nini), married architect Carlo Scarpa. Beatrice's training took place in Venice, first at the Benedetto Marcello Conservatory and as a lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts. Her work initially turned to figurative painting. The first exhibition was in 1924 at the collective-Opera Bevilacqua La Masa in 1928 held her first solo exhibition at Gallery Art Workshops in Venice and, the following year, another was held at the Galleria San Moise. Nell ' Venetian art scene of the '30s, led by the Artistic Circle of Palace of Weights and Coffee on the shore of the rafts, attending Carlo Scarpa, Mario Deluigi and Virgilio Guidi and began a path cutting-edge research and rationalist. Her renown as a painter was for portraits and landscapes. In the applied arts,^[1] the artist made a clean break with the figurative tradition, choosing the abstract and geometric compositions as expressive language.

Roman years 1935-1981

In 1935 she moved to Rome where, during major exhibitions, exhibited murals and decorative panels, working with the architect Ernesto Lapadula. In 1941 she married the Venetian architect Diego Rosa.

After the Second World War, except for collaborating with the architect Attilio Lapadula on some furniture, she devoted himself exclusively to painting and received numerous awards for her work. Hers was a new direction, even if the vibrations and modulations of lines and colors on the canvas approached Vasily Vasilievich Kandinsky. In the fifties she participated in the Venice Biennale and the Rome Quadrennial several times, getting various prizes, and had solo exhibitions in numerous galleries. From the late '50s to 1963, she worked with oil colors to deepen the application of other materials such as glues, sands, paints and later acrylics. In 1964 the artist started again from scratch, giving up the material and color to express herself with the simplest of means: often lines drawn with graphite on a monochrome background. The series of acrylic paintings executed at the end of the '60s and '70s testifies to the last stage of a journey of extraordinary lyricism and modernity, which consolidates her position as major figure in Italian art.

Archive

The Archive Bice Lazzari, which houses an important part of the works, writings, poems and catalog of all its activities, is based in Rome. In 1999, Archival Superintendency for Lazio declared it of considerable historical interest and subject to protection bond. The Archives are responsible for their grandchildren Mariagrazia Oliva and Filippo Bruno Lapadula.

Gravesite

The painter Bice Lazzari chose to be buried in the town of Quero in the tomb of families Rinaldo and Lazzari, who had the habit of spending the holidays in the town of Feltre. The monument, which is visible in the Municipal Cemetery of Quero, was designed by the brother of Lazzari, the architect Carlo Scarpa, while the plaque was made by his grandson Filippo Bruno Lapadula.

References

Bibliography

• Guido Montana, Bice Lazzari. The values of the sign, Weber Gallery Publishing, Turin 1980
•   Paolo Fossati (eds.), Bice Lazzari. Works 1925-1981, Electa Editrice, Milan 1984
•   Paola Watts, Claudio Strinati (ed.), Bice Lazzari 1900-1981. Works 1921-1981, Multigrafica Editrice, Rome 1987
•   Sergio Cortesini, Bice Lazzari, art as a measure, Gangemi Editore, Roma 2002
•   Flavia Scotton, Renato Miracco (ed.), Bice Lazzari. The abstract emotion, Mazzotta Editions, Milan 2005

This article incorporates information from the equivalent article on the Italian Wikipedia.