Dancer Chiara Sculpture

Maria Rosa Muzzi was born in Faenza, a city famous for its ceramic art, where she lived until 1970. Having majored in the plastic arts in High School, She attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna and the Institute of Ceramic Art in Faenza. She moved to Rome in 1971 where she has taught Artistic Education. For many years she devoted herself entirely to painting, but more recently, returned to her first love, clay e bronze.Muzzi represents the humble one, the farmers, personalities that do not make exemplary actions, historical, decisive. They live their daily life without realizing to be represented and to become immortal in the painting. They do not put themselves in laying. They are represented in their natural human condition. What is important is not what they do but how the artist shows us the vision of this subject. Are they simple people? We almost understand it more from the pictorial technique than from other references. With a wide painting, constituted by juxtaposition of wide clear chromatic areas, Muzzi uses a simple language to depict simple ones.In my opinion exist some links with Gauguin, with the sturdiness of his compositions, few figures, and wide masses. But also relations with Ottone Rosai, also if interpreted in a less metaphysic way, of which most of all, we see his technical lesson. Van Gogh and the Fauves are more references that constitute the basis of the art of Maria Rosa Muzzi. She uses three only colours: we wont believe it, so strong is the vitality of her images. She is not only painter: un important area of her artistic work is constituted by the sculpture, in which we can see her studies of plastic but also many relations with Degas