Alberto Burri, Italian artist known for his adventurous use of new materials Burri was trained as a physician and began to paint only in 1944, while in a prisoner-of-war camp in Texas About 1946 he moved to Rome and began to paint seriously His early works—rags splashed in red paint to simulate blood-soaked bandages—grew directly out of his experiences as a doctor in the Italian army He then began to produce works grouped into series according to the material used The works of the earliest series (c…
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