Leonardo Cremonini
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Leonardo Cremonini (1925-2010) was an Italian visual artist.
In 1960 an exhibition of his works at the Parisian 'Galerie du Dragon' brought him to the attention of the French public. During the 1960s he joined the ranks of the Figuration Narrative movement in French art. His art was well received and gained critical appreciation by a number of known French and Italian writers and literary figures such as Louis Althusser, Michel Butor, Italo Calvino, Régis Debray and Marc Le Bot. The latter gave him a book and an entire lecture schedule in his course about the history of contemporary art at the University of Paris I. Cemonini exhibited the Venice Biennale in 1964.
In 1974, he married fellow painter Roberta Crocioni. They had a son named Pietro.
Legacy
As abstraction and conceptual art gained prominence in the 20th century, Cremonini seemed to be marginalized. But a recent resurgence in figurative art suggest a newfound appreciation for the artist. Among his admirers was fellow artist Francis Bacon (artist), who suggested that his friend poet W.H. Auden write about him. William Rubin, the former director of the MoMA, praised Cremonini by saying that his work embodies a spirit of timeless monumentality.
