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Lucio Fontana

1899 - 1968

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Lucio Fontana (Italian: [ˈluːtʃo fonˈtaːna]; 19 February 1899 – 7 September 1968) was an Argentine-Italian painter, sculptor, and theorist. He is known as the founder of Spatialism and exponent of abstract painting as the first known artist to slash his canvases – which symbolizes an utter rejection of all prerequisites of art. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Lucio Fontana is the 377th most popular painter (down from 342nd in 2019), the 46th most popular biography from Argentina (down from 42nd in 2019) and the most popular Argentinean Painter.

Lucio Fontana is most famous for his "Concetto Spaziale" series of paintings, which are large, white, irregular shaped canvases with perforations in them.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Lucio Fontana ranks 377 out of 2,023Before him are Sesshū Tōyō, Jean-Marc Nattier, Anna Ancher, Alexander Roslin, Joseph Karl Stieler, and Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux. After him are Carlo Carrà, Dosso Dossi, William Holman Hunt, Albert Edelfelt, Giovanni Segantini, and Paulus Potter.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1899, Lucio Fontana ranks 47Before him are Charles Best, Emma Morano, Charles Laughton, Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, Jean Moulin, and James Cagney. After him are P. L. Travers, Ramon Novarro, Lev Kuleshov, Louis Hjelmslev, Charles Boyer, and Sobhuza II. Among people deceased in 1968, Lucio Fontana ranks 36Before him are Nikolaus von Falkenhorst, Howard Florey, Ivan Ribar, Kirill Meretskov, Vasily Sokolovsky, and Alice Guy-Blaché. After him are Giovanni Messe, Vittorio Pozzo, Ramon Novarro, Arnold Zweig, Romano Guardini, and Josef Harpe.

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In Argentina

Among people born in Argentina, Lucio Fontana ranks 46 out of 1,154Before him are Reynaldo Bignone (1928), Javier Zanetti (1973), Ernesto Sabato (1911), Héctor Cúper (1955), Juan Manuel de Rosas (1793), and Fernando de la Rúa (1937). After him are Hipólito Yrigoyen (1852), Francisco Varallo (1910), Carlos Saavedra Lamas (1878), Violet Jessop (1887), Roberto Eduardo Viola (1924), and Luis Galván (1948).

Among PAINTERS In Argentina

Among painters born in Argentina, Lucio Fontana ranks 1After him are Leonor Fini (1907), Tomás Maldonado (1922), and Antonio Berni (1905).