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Thursday, June 12, 2014

Degrazia And Munch Paintings

By Darren Hartley


A lifelong appreciation of the native cultures in the Sonoran Desert was the DeGrazia paintings. Ettore, nicknamed Ted, met and married Alexandra, the daughter of Fox Theater owner Nicholas Diamos in 1936. Ted and Alexandria left an evening ballet performance in 1942 to head for the Palacio Municipal to see muralist Diego Rivera at work.

Tucson galleries showed no interest in exhibiting DeGrazia paintings. This prompted Ted to buy an acre of land at Prince Road and Campbell Avenue to build his first adobe studio in 1944. The following year, Ted received a BFA and a Master of Arts titled Art and its Relation to Music in Art Education.

DeGrazia paintings became widely successful from 1960 to the mid 70s. Ted's gallery flourished with hundreds of thousands of yearly visitors. In 1976, a protestation against inheritance taxes on art works led Ted to haul 100 DeGrazia paintings on horseback and set them ablaze in the Superstition Mountains near Phoenix.

Munch paintings played a great role in German expressionism, as well as the art form that later followed. This role is attributed to the strong mental anguish that was displayed in many of the pieces Edvard Munch created. Part of the reason for the deeper tone Munch paintings took was due to the mental illness his father suffered.

The term given to the style of Munch paintings was Symbolism. They were expressions of a personal sense of art, instead of an external view. They were representations of the inward feelings and repressed emotions of Edvard. In short, what you get is not what you actually see, when it comes to Munch paintings.

Among the emotions showcased in Munch paintings were life and death, love and terror and the feeling of loneliness. These were the feelings focused on by Edvard's work patterns. These emotions were depicted in the contrasting lines, darker colors, blocks of colors, somber tones and concise and exaggerated forms in his art works.




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