#bragaglia

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anton giulio bragaglia : the two master notes (1911)

[lascitasdelashoras]

Anton Giulio Bragaglia - Thais, 1917

[gatutor]

Isa Barzizza-Totò "Le sei mogli di Barbablù" 1950, de Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia.

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Miracle in Milan (Miracolo a Milano) (1951) Vittorio De Sica

January 27th 2024

[davidhudson]

Anton Giulio Bragaglia (February 11, 1890 – July 15, 1960), Un Gesto del Capo, 1911.

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pearl & diamonds ring by Mara Bragaglia

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2024: Germana Dominici, attrice, doppiatrice e direttrice del doppiaggio italiana. Figlia dell’attore Arturo Dominici, iniziò la sua carriera nella C.D. negli anni sessanta, per poi diventare socia del Gruppo Trenta nel 1982. Nel 2012 si ritirò dall’attività artistica. Era la moglie del produttore cinematografico Enrico Bomba, con il quale ebbe la figlia Federica, anche lei doppiatrice. Era…

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teresa venerdì (1941)

[halfabird]

Arturo et Anton Bragaglia, Le Violoncelliste, 1913

[wunderkammerett]

anton giulio bragaglia : giovane che si muove da destra a sinistra, 1911

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Arturo Bragaglia

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Maria Mercader ne Il Prigioniero di Santa Cruz (1941) di Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia

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Jayne Mansfield-Mickey Hargitay "The loves of Hercules" (Gli amori di Ercole) 1960, de Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia.

[polymorphousculturevulture]

Still from the 1917 Futurist Art Deco movie “Thaïs” by Anton Giulio Bragaglia.

via mr-e-gallery

[spoopyloonerisms]

Ok I want to talk about this for a second because this is actually one of my favourite paintings. This comes from the futurist movement, who could be classed under the modernists.

The futurists came out of fascist Italy, at a time where automobiles were beginning to become a big thing. The futurists, as you can imagine by their name, were obsessed with the future; in particular with movement, speed, anything dynamic and adrenaline-seeking, largely inspired by automobiles!

Film and photography were a really cool way of expressing this, although it did fall out of fashion for the futurists for a bit.

Anton Giulio Bragaglia, Waving (Salutando), 1911

Anton Giulio Bragaglia, The Typist (Il dattilografo), 1911

If you look back to the painting, you can see how Balla has taken inspiration from this style of photographs, choosing to “blur” the legs of the dog and the woman, the tail and the chain. The “blur” is less blur, and more just stacking slightly transparent images on top of each other, while twisted around a fulcrum to indicate the arc of movement, which is super cool.

They’re also “blurred” to different degrees; the dog’s legs have way more images and are more transparent than the lady’s, because she doesn’t have to move as fast to walk at the same pace as her dog. As you move farther from the fulcrum, transparency increases! Which further emphasises that arc of movement.

The streaks in the background (bit hard to see since this image appears to be overexposed) and the direction also convey movement.

Even the grey and black tones could be interpreted as a reference to automobiles, so again, movement.

It’s honestly just a really visually cool artwork.

I do want people to be aware though that they weren’t just an art movement. Their philosophy informed pretty much most aspects of life, from art, to fashion, to technology, to politics. Keep in mind these people were generally richer men from fascist Italy, so their politics were rather… not good.

If you ever want to read something kind of funny in an unfortunate way, look up the Futurist Manifesto. They talk about how they’re going to burn libraries and how awful women are, from what I remember.

So you could probably link this painting into a discussion about art appreciation, and whether it’s ok to enjoy or consume the art of an artist (or even an art movement) when the people creating it are horrid.

It’s getting late for me though so I’ll leave this for now, please continue scrolling.

Giacomo Balla

Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash

1912