“Riders” of Marino Marini

Abstract

The article is devoted to the creation of well-known Italian sculptor Marino Marini (1901–1980). He was the participant of many qreat displays in Italy and abroad, prize-winner of international exhibitions. The Fund of Marini and the Centre of documentation of his legacy was created in 1979 in one’s home town – Pistoia. His sculptures, drawings, photographyes, catalogues keeps there. In 1975 in Milano, where he teached at great artistic institutes for a long time, was opened «Museum Marini». His talent formed under the influence of distinguished italian sculptor of XXᵗʰ century – Arturo Martini, them meeting happened in 1926. In this article the talk is about biography of Marini and about the main theme of his creation – conception of «horse and rider». In these types he incarnated reverberations of one’s own associations with the contemporary events, also correlated the «riders» with the legacy of the plastic art of etruscas, because he was native of Toscana. This «forma in una idea» developed in sculptures and in drawings of Marini from first works of 1930ᵗʰ to the composition of 1950ᵗʰ–1960ᵗʰ («Miracle» – «Miracle», «Grido» – «Cry» and others). The dramatic history of XXᵗʰ century always was the impulse for his works. He stayed out of official orders, was «free essence», followed the precept of Arturo Martini.