Hand Painted, Hand Carved Majolica
Plates from Deruta in the post-futurist 'Dynamic Sensation' style.
This artistic movement from 1930's grew to embrace painting, sculpture,
architecture and other arts, including, after the First World War,
ceramics. The precepts of Futurism and its preoccupation with dynamism
and motion were to exert a lasting appeal for artists long after the
dwindling of the movement itself in the post-war period; it is
reflected in the vitality and energy of these ceramic plates inspired
by the work of a later Italian artist and stage designer, Corrado
Cagli (1910 - 1976).
These reproductions are based on originals made in the Umbrian town of
Deruta, one of Italy's richest sources of majolica artisans. These
ceramics are in the "graffitti" style. This style implies
that the ceramics are literally "scratched" or carved to
highlight the graphic designs, creating three-dimensional texture.