Carla Accardi is one of the major figures of Italian formalism. Her abstract paintings and artistic explorations relate primarily to symbols, which are integrated into her works in modular series. In 1944, just after the liberation of Sicily, she moved to Palermo to train at the Academy of Fine Arts. This is where she met painter Antonio Sanfilippo, whom she married in 1949 and with whom she has a daughter. She later studied at the Academy in Florence, but its overly figurative and academic orientation soon disappointed her. In 1946, she followed her husband to Rome and produced paintings based in geometric abstraction, linking her with the pioneers...
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