Calderara abandoned his studies as an engineer in 1925, to devote himself to painting. A self-taught artist, his first works were influenced by the Impressionism: landscapes, still lives, portraits. The subjects were treated in an intimist way, with rigorous composition and a reduced colour palette, very often in small sizes. His work, somehow related to 'Realismo Magico', met a broad success. In the fifties Calderara's work approached a purely abstract world; he developed an abstraction in pastel colours, characterized by the purification of form, colour and structure. From 1959, his paintings and watercolours, show - often in a square format - compositions founded on verticality and horizontality, with a palette almost monochrome. |
