Mario Bardi
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.
Mario Bardi
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- Name
- Mario Bardi
- Born
- January 1922
- Birthplace
- Palermo, Sicily, Italy
- Died
- 7 September 1998
- Place of death
- Milan
- Field
- paintings, design
- Nationality
- Italy · Kingdom of Italy
- Occupation
- painter
- Movements
- existential realism · realism · Neo-figurative
- Education
- Accademia di Belle Arti di Palermo
- Teachers
- Pippo Rizzo · Michele Dixitdomino
- Honours
- Premio Suzzara
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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.
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Mario Bardi (1922–1998) was an Italian and Italian painter. Born in Palermo, the painter died in Milan.
Mario Bardi studied at Accademia di Belle Arti di Palermo. The painter worked in Milan and Palermo. Mario Bardi was associated with existential realism and Neo-figurative.
Languages used include Italian. Works by the painter are held at Gallarate Art Museum, Museo civico di Castelbuono and Museo del Novecento, among others. Mario Bardi received Premio Suzzara.
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In the same year he moved to Aosta, in Val d'Aosta in north-west Italy. In 1954 he was in Turin, in Piemonte. He moved to Milan, in Lombardy in northern Italy, in the early 1960s. Bardi won the Premio Suzzara in 1963 and the Premio Tettamanti in 1964 and again in 1966. He died in Milan of a stroke on 7 September 1998. The Sicilian writer Leonardo Sciascia wrote of Bardi: "there is nothing in his painting which Sicily cannot explain".
Mario Bardi studied at Accademia di Belle Arti di Palermo. Training under Pippo Rizzo and Michele Dixitdomino is recorded. The recorded working language is Italian. Places of work recorded in the authority are Milan and Palermo. Work by Mario Bardi is recorded in the collections of Museo civico di Castelbuono, Gallarate Art Museum, Suzzara Prize Museum, Museo del Novecento and Museum - Osservatorio dell'arte in Sicilia. Distinctions recorded are Premio Suzzara.
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• Name — Mario Bardi • Born — January 1922 • Birthplace — Palermo, Sicily, Italy • Died — 7 September 1998 • Place of death — Milan • Field — paintings, design • Website — mariobardi.it
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1922
Mario Bardi was born in 1922 at Palermo.
1998
Mario Bardi died in 1998 at Milan.
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Mario Bardi received Premio Suzzara.
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- 1.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.
- 2.Sveva Alagna (24 June 2006). L' Isola di Mario Bardi nella retrospettiva inaugurata alla Galleria 61 (in Italian). La Repubblica. Accessed December 2015.
- 3.[s.n.] (1984). Storia dell'arte in Sicilia, volume 2 (in Italian). Palermo: Edizioni del Sole.
- 4.Bardi Mario (in Italian). Galleria del Premio Suzzara. Accessed December 2015.
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Mario Bardi studied at Accademia di Belle Arti di Palermo. He trained under Pippo Rizzo and Michele Dixitdomino.
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