Mario sironi biography

Italian painter

Mario Sironi (May 12, – August 13, ) was an Italian Modernist artist who was active as a painter, sculptor, illustrator, and designer. His typically somber paintings are characterized by massive, immobile forms.

Biography

He was born in Sassari, on the island of Sardinia. His father was an engineer; his maternal grandfather was the architect and sculptor Ignazio Villa.^[1] Sironi spent his childhood in Rome. He embarked on the study of engineering at the University of Rome but quit after a nervous breakdown in , one of many severe depressions that would recur throughout his life.^[2] Thereafter he decided to study painting, and began attending the Scuola Libera del Nudo of the Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma. There he met Giacomo Balla, who became "his first real teacher".^[3] Sironi returned to Milan in before traveling to Paris in ^[4] Like his friends Gino Severini and Umberto Boccioni, he began paint