ART AND MUSIC

MARCELLO SCARANO

The year 2011 marked the 110 years since the birth of Marcello Scarano (Siena 1901 - Campobasso 1962), the most important painter of the twentieth century Molise.

The parents were natives of Trivento Marcello Scarano, transferred to Siena, where his father Nicholas, professor of literature, had received the teaching. In his paintings Scarano has often painted landscapes of the countryside and our territories and no doubt we can say that was a painter with Trigno Valley in the heart.
Giuseppe Jovine him [2], the great poet and writer born in Castelmauro, says that "working alone, when they mounted the stand in clearings of the forests of Trivento or Castelmauro or village, or rural and marine Frentania Pentria".

Jovine wrote that "it is only ever met, with his aristocratic carelessness of a whimsical, elusive bohemian always ready to joke and salacious divertevole, soulful eyes that lit up, and fugitives. Apparently lived isolated from the business centers of national culture, but aware of the problems of art, which could make a critical contribution to its original and motivated. "

After childhood and adolescence in Siena, back in 1918 in Campobasso, where she studied painting Nicholas Biondi and begins to participate in exhibitions.

In 1922 in Rome attending artists and venues of the intellectuals.
The first solo exhibition in 1926, in Campobasso, followed by the second the following year. Campobasso known in the art and attended Amedeo Trivisonno.
In 1928 he moved to Naples where he held the third solo exhibition, attended the Naples art scene.
In 1930 he participated in the exhibition of the Fascist Union of Fine Arts field, then the same in the Abruzzo region, and exhibits in Florence. Prizes and awards are becoming more frequent, and are also frequent exposure to its holdings in Italy (Rome, Cremona, Milan, Naples, then again, Francavilla a Mare) and abroad (Hanover).
In 1942 he was invited to the Venice Biennale XIII.

Artistic production. A considerable number of works of considerable artistic production is represented by the portraits (and self), especially family members (in particular his sister Silvia), covering the first two decades of activity.

Another issue, deeply dear to the artist, is the world farmers from Molise, with both the characters with the landscape. Landscapes of Molise, Campobasso with the Monforte Castle, with the valley of Trivento Trigno and farmhouses, Mainarde, Termoli and the sea are recurring themes throughout the period of its production.
From the Little Shepherd (1925) Trigno the Valley (1923), the Reaper (1930) to the Threshing (1935), by Farmer (1935) Collection of the Grain (1940) which gets a special prize in Cremona "Triennale" and that exposure shows in Hanover.

Another trend is very dear to him the sacred, mainly dealt with in the decade from 1930 to 1940, with the Pilgrims, the Marian Month.