ABSTRACT ART IN ITALY
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In Italy, as we have already noted, the Futurism of Boccioni, Carrà and Soffici often approached abstraction. But Balla and Magnelli are the only painters since then to have produced works of a radical and deliberate abstraction. Before 1914 Severini painted a few abstract works in Paris. A large number of abstractionists have appeared in Italy since the war, including Vedova, Corpora, Bertini, Burri, Guerrini, Bozzolini, Savelli, di Salvatore, Capograssi, Prampolini, Soldati, Dorazio, Righetti, Reggiani, Santomaso. Some of these are well known in Paris and New York. Pettoruti, who was for many years keeper of the Museum of Fine Arts in Buenos-Ayres and who is known in America for his Cubist works which are sometimes similar to those of Gris, returned to abstraction in 1953, having already tried it in Italy when he was a young man.
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