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Piero Manzoni

1933 - 1963

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Piero Manzoni di Chiosca e Poggiolo (July 13, 1933 – February 6, 1963) was an Italian artist best known for his ironic approach to avant-garde art. Often compared to the work of Yves Klein, his own work anticipated, and directly influenced, the work of a generation of younger Italian artists brought together by the critic Germano Celant in the first Arte Povera exhibition held in Genoa, 1967. Manzoni is most famous for a series of artworks that call into question the nature of the art object, directly prefiguring Conceptual Art. His work eschews normal artist's materials, instead using everything from rabbit fur to human excrement in order to "tap mythological sources and to realize authentic and universal values". Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Piero Manzoni is the 445th most popular painter (down from 433rd in 2019), the 1,346th most popular biography from Italy (down from 1,303rd in 2019) and the 117th most popular Italian Painter.

Piero Manzoni is most famous for his "Artist's Shit" series. He would take feces from a variety of animals and put them in tin cans, which he then labeled with an artist's name.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Piero Manzoni ranks 445 out of 2,023. Before him are Heinz Linge, Max Klinger, Marie Laurencin, Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, Sigmar Polke, and Hubert Robert. After him are Lucian Freud, Jean-Étienne Liotard, Mikhail Vrubel, Giovanni Battista Moroni, Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg, and Theophanes the Greek.

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Among people born in 1933, Piero Manzoni ranks 95. Before him are Edward de Bono, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Walter Kasper, Larry King, Danny Aiello, and Hisataka Okamoto. After him are Liliana Cavani, Jean-Claude Brialy, Tom Skerritt, John Mayall, Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa, and Henri, Count of Paris. Among people deceased in 1963, Piero Manzoni ranks 39. Before him are Theodore von Kármán, Kurt Zeitzler, Karl Bühler, Oleg Penkovsky, Princess Alexandra of Hanover, and Georg-Hans Reinhardt. After him are Michael Rockefeller, Sabu Dastagir, Pedro Armendáriz, Sylvanus Olympio, Mohammad Ali Bogra, and Sivananda Saraswati.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Piero Manzoni ranks 1,346 out of 5,161. Before him are Maria Pia of Savoy (1847), Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (1727), Asconius Pedianus (-9), Julia Flavia (64), Giovanni Gronchi (1887), and Amintore Fanfani (1908). After him are Dion of Syracuse (-409), Luigi Tenco (1938), Gianni Morandi (1944), Naevius Sutorius Macro (-21), Eleanor of Anjou (1289), and Armando Diaz (1861).

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Among PAINTERS In Italy

Among painters born in Italy, Piero Manzoni ranks 117. Before him are Giuseppe Castiglione (1688), Fede Galizia (1578), Carlo Levi (1902), Gino Severini (1883), Orcagna (1315), and Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (1727). After him are Giovanni Battista Moroni (1525), Cima da Conegliano (1459), Marcantonio Raimondi (1480), Cristofano Allori (1577), Jacopo de' Barbari (1460), and Giulio Clovio (1498).

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