Piero Dorazio, abstract painter
deb...@comcast.net
ROME (AP) - Piero Dorazio, considered one of the fathers of Italian
abstract painting, died Tuesday in Perugia after being treated for
kidney problems that were a consequence of diabetes, hospital officials
said. He was 77.
A painter and a sculptor who had studied architecture in Rome and in
Paris, Dorazio joined various avant-garde movements and attracted
attention in the late 1950s for the way he represented space using the
vibration of light through a transparent structure.
Among his first works in the 1950s was a collective mural painting in
Milan.
For the last three decades, he had lived in the Umbrian town of Todi,
where he continued his work with fragments of colored lines in big
compositions.
In 1951, Dorazio organized a national exhibit of abstract art at Rome's
National Gallery of Modern Art.
Dorazio had a personal show in a New York gallery, and in the 1960s
began teaching at the University of Pennsylvania. In 1956, he was
invited to exhibit in the Venice's Biennale, the first of several
showings by Dorazio there.