Marino Marini, in his artist quotes on sculpture - free resource, Italian art history

Marino Marini in his quotes - the artist on sculpture art, painting & his artistic life in Italy - free resource for pupils, students and teachers in Italian art history

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Marino Marini is here described in his artist quotes. They reveal his characteristic art approach and artistic development as an Italian sculptor-artist. He explains us a. o. that his equestrian figures are symbols of the Human Anguish, often expressed by him in his ‘horse and rider’ sculptures.

From about 1922 Marini’s art became strongly influenced by Etruscan sculpture art and by the sculptor Arturo Marini - his Italian art teacher, till 1940. Marini’s sculpture art is a kind of modern mythology, expressing the man in relation to the horse.
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Some selected quotes of Italian artist Marino Marini - as a short introduction of his extended quotes in the PDF:

• ’I would never begin on a sculpture without first gaining an idea of the colour… .My mind is captivated by this task until I start to put down the colour on paper… …suddenly, the (colored) drawing begins to acquire shape…’ - Marini’s quote, in his exhibition text ‘Marino Marini, Painter, Draughtsman, Sculptor’, Museum de Fundatie, 2013-14

• ’I am no longer seeking, in my own equestrian figures, to celebrate the triumph (of heroes)… .On the contrary, I seek to commemorate in them something tragic – in fact, a kind of ‘Twilight of Man’ - Marini’s quote from ‘Dialogues – conversations with European Artists at Mid-century’, Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd London, 1990, p. 87

• ’Not so long ago a sculptor could still be content with a search for full, sensual and vigorous forms. But in the past fifteen years (1943 – 1958), nearly all our new sculpture has tended to create forms that are disintegrating.’ - quote of Marini, from: ‘Interview with Edouard Roditi’ (1958), in ‘Dialogues – conversations with European Artists at Mid-century’, Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd London, 1990, p. 89
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  links for selected free art-resources on Italian artist Marino Marini:

  • biographical notes on Marino Marini, Wikipedia: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MarinoMarini(sculptor)
  • artist-quotes of ànd about Marini, Wikiquote: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/MarinoMarini
  • images of the painting art of Marino Marini, Wikiart: https://www.wikiart.org/en/marino-marini
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    editor: Fons Heijnsbroek / Matrozenhof (FotoDutch on Wikiquote):<br>[http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/User:FotoDutch]