Utilizing unpublished or little-known documents, this essay outlines the career of painter, engraver and commercial artist Gastone Celada (1912-2004), active from early 1930's to the end of the 1980's. Following his formative years at the Accademia Cignaroli in Verona, he became assistant to Carlo Donati in the execution of fresco cycles for several Trentino churches. Although ecclesiastic commissions determined the subject matter of his early production, from the end of the 1940's he began to develop a style of painting with fabulistic overtones inspired by Trecento e Quattrocento art and by aspect of Metaphysical painting and Magic Realism. For about twenty years Celada exhibited intensively at the national level and participeted regularly in the Biennali d'arte of Verona.

Gastone Celada

Alberto Cibin
2018

Abstract

Utilizing unpublished or little-known documents, this essay outlines the career of painter, engraver and commercial artist Gastone Celada (1912-2004), active from early 1930's to the end of the 1980's. Following his formative years at the Accademia Cignaroli in Verona, he became assistant to Carlo Donati in the execution of fresco cycles for several Trentino churches. Although ecclesiastic commissions determined the subject matter of his early production, from the end of the 1940's he began to develop a style of painting with fabulistic overtones inspired by Trecento e Quattrocento art and by aspect of Metaphysical painting and Magic Realism. For about twenty years Celada exhibited intensively at the national level and participeted regularly in the Biennali d'arte of Verona.
2018
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