- Achilles Rizzoli
Achilles G. Rizzoli (1896 - 1981), anonymous during his lifetime, has since his death become celebrated as an outsider artist. He is an unusual example of an "outsider" artist who had considerable formal training in drawing.
Rizzoli lived near the U.S. city of
San Francisco , where he was employed as an architectural draftsman. After his death, a group of elaborate drawings came to light, many in the form of maps and architectural renderings that described an imaginary world exposition (much of which was designated "Y.T.T.E.," for "Yield To Total Elation"). The drawings include "portraits" of his mother (whom he lived with until her death) and neighborhood children "symbolically sketched" in the form of fancifulneo-baroque buildings. Some of the buildings commemorated events in Rizzoli's life, including his first glimpse of a vulva at age forty.Fact|date=March 2007A film was made about his life and work, called "Yield to Total Elation: The Life and Art of Achilles Rizzoli".
External links
* [http://www.newday.com/films/Yield_To_Total_Elation.html Web site for the film "Yield to Total Elation"]
* [http://www.amesgallery.com/ArtistPages/Rizzoli.html The Ames Gallery "the Artists" profile of A.G. Rizzoli]References
Jo Farb Hernandez, John Beardsley, and Roger Cardinal. "A, G. Rizzoli: Architect of Magnificent Visions".
Harry N. Abrams, Inc. , 1997. ISBN 0-8109-4293-3 (trade cloth binding) and ISBN 0-937108-20-0 (paperback).
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