{"id":15731,"date":"2014-09-16T01:47:16","date_gmt":"2014-09-16T00:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=15731"},"modified":"2014-09-16T05:01:24","modified_gmt":"2014-09-16T04:01:24","slug":"the-art-of-fabrizio-clerici-1913-1993","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2014\/09\/16\/the-art-of-fabrizio-clerici-1913-1993\/","title":{"rendered":"The art of Fabrizio Clerici, 1913\u20131993"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"clerici1.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/clerici1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Un istante dopo (1978).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>An Italian painter of the fantastic who&#8217;s managed to stay off my radar for one reason or another despite doing many of the things I like to see: weightless structures, imaginary architecture, and (towards the end of his career) a series of variations on Arnold B\u00f6cklin&#8217;s endlessly adaptable <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2006\/02\/22\/arnold-bocklin-and-the-isle-of-the-dead\/\"><em>The Isle of the Dead<\/em><\/a>. The latter paintings are some of the best B\u00f6cklin variants I&#8217;ve seen. These alone would have made him worthy of attention but the rest of his oeuvre is an equally accomplished development of late Surrealism (or, if you need another category, Fantastic Realism). The <a href=\"http:\/\/archivioclerici.filippocorretti.com\/category\/art\/paintings\/\" target=\"_blank\">official website<\/a> is a very good one so there&#8217;s plenty more to see. (Thanks to Michelangelo for the tip!)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"clerici2.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/clerici2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>La tromba d\u2019aria (1965).<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"clerici3.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/clerici3.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Latitudine B\u00f6cklin (1974).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/the-fantastic-art-archive\/\">The fantastic art archive<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Previously on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2011\/10\/29\/a-picture-to-dream-over-the-isle-of-the-dead\/\">A Picture to Dream Over: The Isle of the Dead<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2011\/06\/13\/the-isle-of-the-dead-in-detail\/\">The Isle of the Dead in detail<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2006\/02\/22\/arnold-bocklin-and-the-isle-of-the-dead\/\">Arnold B\u00f6cklin and The Isle of the Dead<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Un istante dopo (1978). An Italian painter of the fantastic who&#8217;s managed to stay off my radar for one reason or another despite doing many of the things I like to see: weightless structures, imaginary architecture, and (towards the end of his career) a series of variations on Arnold B\u00f6cklin&#8217;s endlessly adaptable The Isle of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2014\/09\/16\/the-art-of-fabrizio-clerici-1913-1993\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The art of Fabrizio Clerici, 1913\u20131993&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,2,21,44,18,45],"tags":[267,6454],"class_list":["post-15731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","category-art","category-fantasy","category-painting","category-surrealism","category-symbolists","tag-arnold-bocklin","tag-fabrizio-clerici"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-45J","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}