Giovanni Bartolomucci

Born in Barisciano (AQ) in 1923 - Died in Rome in 1996.

Already at his home village he became interested in painting following the teachings of local painter Tito Pellicciotti. At age 16 he moved to Rome to take part to the big artistic flourishing of the fifties. Soon he became interested in new artistic experiments including those connected to space exploration: his painting "First men on the moon" (here presented but removed by the administrators due to the lack of a reference: should anyone have it, please help) produced many years before the actual feat, was acquired by the Kennedy Collection and reproduced in 1969 on main American newspaper coupled to the images coming from the moon.In 1963 he returned to Italy to continue his artistic career that took him through Abstract Expressionism and a few other areas of expression. He died in 1996 of Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis possibly as a consequence of the chemicals he used in the course of his life for his job. In the middle of the '90s he took part to one of the early and most successful web exhibits on Artnet Italia: the now defunct site showing part of his work and a biography is now [http://www.miafoto.it/art/uk/index.html available] in a museum-type no-profit presentation.

External links

[http://www.miafoto.it/art/uk/gbartolomucci.html Giovanni Bartolomucci on the vintage Artnet Italia site]