Bruno Amadio ( January 15, 1911 , Venice - September 22, 1981 , Padua ) - Italian artist, known under the pseudonym Bragolin .
| Giovanni Bragolin | |
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| ital Bruno amadio | |
| Aliases | and |
| Date of Birth | January 15, 1911 |
| Place of Birth | Venice |
| Date of death | September 22, 1981 (70 years) |
| Place of death | Padua |
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Biography
Born in Venice, where he became interested in painting when he was still a child, and began studying drawing at the academy. However, without completing the course of study, he began to work independently, joining the classicists and developing his own way of depicting life. Part of the work he sold to tourists in post-war Venice. He was a husband and father, died in 1981 of esophageal cancer in Padua [1] [2] .
Creativity
Giovanni Bragolin (this is a pseudonym , he also signed pictures with other similar names) drew children, flowers and scenes from everyday life, sketches on historical subjects. Fame brought him paintings, which depict crying boys and girls.
Interesting Facts
- The painting “ Crying Boy ”, painted by Bragolin and becoming very popular in the 1960s – 1970s, is considered to be cursed within the urban legend , its reproductions, allegedly, can cause fires. This belief was associated with a show arranged by one of the British newspapers ( The Sun ), which organized the burning of a large number of reproductions of the painting.
- The cycle of paintings Bragolin sometimes referred to as portraits of gypsy children. At the same time, in reality, hardly even some of the artist’s models were Gypsies (and it is absolutely certain that they were not all representatives of this people).
- For some time, Bragolin fell out of the focus of public attention. There are opinions that he lived for a long time in Padua (Italy) and Spain , where he also painted pictures. On this basis, it is sometimes even called Spanish, and not Italian painter.
Notes
- ↑ Steve Punt, “Solved: Curse of the Crying Boy; Comic's Obsession with Painting », The Sun, Oct. 9, 2010, p. eight.
- ↑ Polidoro, Massimo, “Curse That Painting!”, Skeptical Inquirer , v. 36, n. 6, pp. 17-19 (Nov.-Dec. 2012).