Guido Cinotti Biography
Guido Cinotti (Siena, 1870 – Milan, 1932) was an Italian painter, known mainly as a landscape painter and creator of still lifes. At a young age he moved to Milan, where he attended artistic training courses at Brera, before undertaking a period of training together with a group of young painters led by the Umbrian Annibale Brugnoli. The various decorative works included the renovation of the Teatro Lirico in Milan, which anticipated by a few years the decorative works carried out on Corso Vittorio Emanuele, a true example of twentieth-century liberty. His first pictorial phase was part of a realistic stylistic and formal context, well represented by the works The Pigs (1894) and April Sunset (1903). The pigs won the Mylius prize of the Brera Academy in 1896, with the following motivation: «for the robust color (...) and the complex composition and the effect of the light». Subsequently he adhered to divisionism for a short period, as highlighted by the Lamento and the Rabbits, with which he won the Mylius prize of the Brera Academy in 1894. In the following phase Cinotti, thanks to the spatula painting technique and careful chromatic research, reached a moment of great creativity, concretized with a series of flower paintings. His very personal style was characterized by the fusion between the Art Nouveau style and that of Monticelli. Accustomed to signing paintings only once they left the studio, upon his death he left several unsigned works: the authentication was entrusted by his widow, Cena, to his friends Carlo Bazzi and Angiolo D'Andrea. His daughter, born in 1920, was the art historian Mia Cinotti (real name Amalia), who died in 1992.
