{"id":1009715,"date":"2020-05-28T15:39:10","date_gmt":"2020-05-28T13:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marottaeditori.com\/rafael-alberti-tra-versi-e-pittura\/"},"modified":"2020-06-11T21:07:21","modified_gmt":"2020-06-11T19:07:21","slug":"rafael-alberti-between-verses-and-painting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.marottaeditori.com\/en\/rafael-alberti-between-verses-and-painting\/","title":{"rendered":"Rafael Alberti: between verses and painting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Poet, painter, playwright, political activist, exile: Rafael Alberti crossed the twentieth century intensely, with consistency and commitment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

He was born in Puerto di Santa Maria, near Cadiz in 1902 from a family of Italian origin. In 1917 he moved to Madrid, where he enrolled in the local Academy of Fine Art and met Luis Bu\u00f1uel<\/a>, Federico Garc\u00eda Lorca<\/a> and Salvador Dal\u00ed<\/a> thanks to the Residencia de Estudiantes (a liberal cultural institution that was complementary to the University).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Together with them Rafael Alberti will be one of the protagonists of the so-called Generation of ’27.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a poet he finds his dimension in a confrontation with the politics of the country and in the belief that a man of letters must be at the service of his country. For these reasons he is identified as the singer of Spanish civic elegy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In 1931 he enrolled in the Partido Comunista de Espa\u00f1a (PCE) and, together with his partner Mar\u00eda Teresa Le\u00f3n<\/a>, founded the revolutionary magazine Octubre. The Civil War sees him lined up against the Francoists. Following the defeat of the Republicans, he was forced to take refuge abroad: in France, Mexico, Argentina and finally in Italy (1963) where he lived between the small village of Anticoli Corrado and the Trastevere district. In Rome he establishes a long cultural partnership with the Italian poet Elena Clementelli and with some literary critics, he also collaborates with the Inti-Illimani<\/a>, also exiled but from Chile, who music some of his texts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After Francisco Franco’s death and the end of the regime, he finally manages to return to his homeland (1977), where he fully enters the country’s cultural and political life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rafael Alberti painter<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Alberti’s artistic and poetic research proceed in parallel: he exhibited for the first time in 1920 at the Sal\u00f3n Nacional de Oto\u00f1o in Madrid. In the same years (1924) he published the collection of poems Marineri en tierra with which he won the Nacional de Poes\u00eda Prize.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He devoted himself to painting with greater intensity in the years of exile: in Argentina he exhibited in various art galleries and published his portfolio of Liricograf\u00edas poems, in which he combined visual symbols and words.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In Italy, in the early sixties, he attended artists such as Emilio Vedova, Corrado Cagli and Umberto Mastroianni and learned some engraving techniques, such as the unusual lead engraving. He creates numerous serigraphs and lithographs portfolios and designs posters for nature conservation campaigns spread all over the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He collaborates with some of the major artists of the time, such as Joan Mir\u00f3, Antoni T\u00e0pies, Manolo Rivera, Carlos Saura, Robert Motherwell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n