Anna Salvatore Biography
Anna Salvatore (1923 – 1978) was a painter, sculptor and actress born in Rome. In the mid-1940s, in the socially engaged post-war climate, the artist linked his works to the neorealist trend, with paintings that portrayed the suburbs and the youth of this period pervaded by great vitality. It was in those years that his attention to the female figure with opulent and sensual shapes was highlighted. He studied in Florence, then attending the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, where he began an artistic partnership with the painter Domenico Purificado. She entered the artistic world after the last world war, quickly becoming one of the best-known figures in the cultural and social world, also thanks to the "Il Pincio" art gallery, which the painter managed in the 1950s in Piazza del Popolo. He met and frequented Ungaretti, Pasolini, Moravia, Anna Banti, Silori and Gatto. Critics have considered her one of the most important exponents of neorealist painting. In 1956 she achieved her first success at the Venice Biennale, where she had been invited, exhibiting "black and white" works representing boys and girls from the suburbs. In 1959 Federico Fellini offered her a small part in La Dolce Vita, for the literary salon scene. It was towards the end of the seventies that he added themes of eros to his realistic paintings. The style of the painter Anna Salvatore, always very consistent in all her works, has been defined as Neorealist, not only for the subjects chosen (those village people who also animated the cinematographic production of the same genre) but also for the language adopted by this painter. In fact, Anna Salvatore interprets reality in her works as it is, in a totally dry way.
