Lorenzo Favero Biography
Lorenzo Favero (1911 - 1974), painter from Brescia and famous art critic, identifies well with the generation of artists who were culturally formed in the school of the twentieth century. In his youth he first attended high school, then the faculty of literature at the University of Pavia, managing to obtain the position of Italian teacher at the "Giovanni Pascoli" middle school in Brescia at just 25 years of age, a job he held for 30 years. He soon approached the Mazzoni brothers, his uncles, and the expressionist currents of the time, an aspect that can be clearly seen in his older works. The meeting with Emilio Rizzi then led him to follow the solid constructions of the latest classicism organized and defined by the rigor of twentieth-century culture. 1939 represents the stage in the author's life, where from a photographic matrix the artist seeks an opening towards modernity: he detaches himself from the pure nineteenth-century technique from which he started, to arrive at using broader and less defined brushstrokes, always while maintaining references to figurative themes evoking classical traditions, for example the portraits of children are inspired by Pascoli's rhetoric. Favero's attention is towards reality, recreated through short brushstrokes, diffused brightness and well-defined planes, and then moves on to a change in his painting that leads to the fusion between object and subject. In fact, in watercolors, the melting of the pictorial material opens the image to a much more imaginative dimension and aura. This dynamic can also be seen in landscapes, perhaps in a less profound but always incisive way.
