Armando Carpanetti Biography
Armando Carpanetti (1898 - 1969) was an avant-garde Italian painter and artist. Carpanetti was born on January 15, 1898 in Ancona, Italy. He received an early liberal arts education in Manaos (now Manaus), Brazil, at the Mario de Lima Academy. In 1912, at the age of fourteen, Carpanetti was commissioned to paint the rooms of the Casa degli Italiani, an apolitical cultural foundation founded in 1865 and located in Barcelona, Spain. The work led to a scholarship at the Brera Academy in Milan, Italy. Carpanetti studied under Ambrogio Antonio Alciati (1878-1929) and was one of Alciati's favorite students. He graduated in 1923. From the beginning of Carpanetti's painting career, the artist sought to create episodic narrative compositions based on myths that express human drama. Carpanetti was interested in the figure that was at the center of many of his works. The artist was part of the second wave of 20th-century Italian artists who sought to reclaim their Italian heritage and express it in a modern style. Together with the futurist artist Mario Sironi (1885-1961), the two led the Artistic Avant-garde Movement in Italy. Carpanetti exhibited in many of the best exhibitions of the time including the II Quadrennial of Rome, several Venice Biennials (PNF Prize 1930), the Antoiana of Milan (1923) and the Brera Biennale (1926). Carpanetti died on April 5, 1969 in Milan, Italy.
