Biography
Rosso (1858-1928) was born in Turin, but moved with his family to Milan in 1870 where he enrolled at the Brera Academy in 1882. There he produced substantial body of work before being expelled for violently rebelling against traditional teaching methods.His work eschewed solidity and heaviness, aiming instead to capture fleeting expressions and to convey a sense of spontaneity. Rosso's lightness of touch was enhanced by means of his use of the unconventional and malleable medium of wax over plaster.His work also sought to establish a new relationship between the figure and its environment, endowing 'empty' space with tangible form. Such interests were shared by the Futurists, and in 1912 Umberto Boccioni described Rosso as "the only great modern sculptor", observing how "the sensitive touch of [Rosso's] thumb makes the epidermis of his figures vibrate with the pulsing of veins."
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