Annamaria Ducaton was born in Trieste into a
family where art was familiar. Her mother, a stage and film actress
and also an opera singer, in her widowhood supported and helped on the
artistic talents of her two children: the elder became an architect,
the younger, a girl started musical studies and then passed to painting.
The symbiosis between Annamaria and her artistic mother led the daughter
to a constant pressing remark : art is life and life is art. This is
a landmark concept in the development of the artist's personality.
La donna del mare (Ibsen)
(1985) photography, tempera,
mixed technique on photo paper
cm. 70x50
(increasable)
Annamaria Ducaton spent her tragic childhood
and early adolescence in the quietness of the paternal grandparents'
country villa in Northern Friuli, where the direct contact with nature
was complete. Later, the artist would draw from it the breath of life,
her spiritual nourishment. Her father's untimely death brought mother's
and child's personalities nearer and nearer, so Annamaria Ducaton started
studying painting in Trieste under Alice Psacaropulo, the famous painter
from Trieste who had attended Felice Casorati's classes. Then she went
on studying at the nude art School run by Nino Perizi at the Revoltella
Museum of Trieste.
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La porta dell'anima
(Omaggio ad Anna Frank)
(1995) photography, tempera
mixed technique, cm. 70x50
(increasable)
La porta dell'anima
(Omaggio ad Anna Frank)
(1995) tempera, mixed technique
cm. 70x50
(increasable)
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She passed from initial post-cubism, inspired
by Casorati, to a personal natural surrealism or better a magic-fantastic
realism. She has been exposing since 18 in group shows in Trieste and
in the regional area.
From 1960 to 1966, she joined in the meetings between designers and
textile industrialists in Busto Arsizio (Varese).
She worked for Ceramiche San Polo of Venice and very young she exhibited
at the XI Triennale of Milan. She showed her panels for interior decoration
and worked for some time as graphic artist.
La donna del mare (Ibsen)
(1985) photography, tempera,
mixed technique on paper
cm. 70x50
(increasable)
Giving up her piano studies to carry on figurative
art after a break for family reasons from 1966 to 1973, she resumed
her artistic career.
In 1974 she had a one person show. Musical and literary interests lay
down the law in her production as a painter.
She generally works on a subject which implies careful study and detailed
research on the subject.
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