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Soffici Ardengo (Rignano sull'Arno, 1879 - Vittoria Apuana, 1964) Ardengo Soffici was an Italian artist, born in Rignano sull'Arno in 1879. He attended the Academy of Florence for a short period and then moved to Paris in 1900, where he met Guillame Apollinaire, thanks to whom he met Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Max Jacob and Andrò Salmon. Read the full biography

Ardengo Soffici Biography

Soffici Ardengo (Rignano sull'Arno, 1879 - Vittoria Apuana, 1964) Ardengo Soffici was an Italian artist, born in Rignano sull'Arno in 1879. He attended the Academy of Florence for a short period and then moved to Paris in 1900, where he met Guillame Apollinaire, thanks to whom he met Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Max Jacob and Andrò Salmon. In 1907 he returned to Italy, where he founded the magazine "La Voce" together with Papini, directed by Prezzolini, for which he designed the masthead and collaborated as an art critic. Soffici subsequently criticized Futurism on the pages of the "Voce", until he broke away from the magazine to found "Lacerba", one of the magazines promoting Florentine Futurism. Over time his interest in Futurism diminished and “Lacerba” supported the interventionist movement, so much so that Soffici decided to leave as a volunteer in the war. After returning from the war the artist approached solid and classical values ​​and was soon perceived as a guide by the artists and critics of the magazines "Il Selvaggio" and "l'Italiano", for which he wrote articles in favor of the rural movement and nationalist. He became one of the greatest supporters of fascist art and in his essays entitled "Periplus of art - Call to order" he tried to reconcile the avant-garde with the value of the return to order. The main themes of his paintings were always still lifes, landscapes and village scenes, created with a realist and conservative style.