Carlo Fornara Biography
Carlo Fornara, born in 1871 to a peasant family in Prestinone, in the Vigezzo Valley, Fornara enrolled at the Rossetti Valentini School of Fine Arts in Santa Maria Maggiore, where he studied with Enrico Cavalli. In 1891 he participated in the First Brera Triennale, where he discovered his first pointillist works. After a trip to France in 1894-1895, he approached neo-impressionism.
In 1897, his painting “En plein Air” was rejected by the jury of the Third Brera Triennale, but judged positively by Segantini and Pellizza. Fornara then entered the Milanese circle of the art dealer Alberto Grubicy, who had him exhibited in numerous national and international exhibitions, presenting him as an ideal representative of divisionism, together with Previati.
As the years passed, his painting evolved towards post-impressionist solutions, while maintaining some characteristics of divisionism. His technique becomes increasingly subtle and filiform. In 1922, he retired to his home in Prestinone, where he spent the rest of his life. Fornara died in 1968.
