Adriano Gajoni

Adriano Gajoni, (Milan, October 29, 1913 - Milan, March 26, 1965) was an Italian painter.

Life 
Gajoni was born in Milan, he was also active in Paris. He initially studied with Giovanni Borgonovo, then at a very young age he was admitted to the Accademia di Brera, starting his artistic activity early, he became passionate about the study of painters ombard seventeenth century, still At a very young age he taught drawing for four years to support himself in fine arts studies. He will then become Professor for eight years at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan.

He preferred landscapes, still life and portraits. He mainly practiced oil painting on wood and hardboard. He never liked to appear, preventing his works from arriving at auction.

He died in 1965 at the age of 52 from the consequences of a car accident, leaving his two daughters, Cristina and Rita, and his wife Dolores. He was buried in the Milan Cemetery.

Painting style 
The art critic Angelo Panerai writes:  «Rigorous balance, wise distribution of lights and volumes, impression of solidity and architecture. All so thought out, so necessarily functional that the eye passes over this intelligent painting without ever noticing the slightest imbalance. The tones themselves obey this harmonious criterion that does not admit of coloristic affectation: a few whites and abundant warm colors unmistakably mark this nourished painting, but where one never feels the labor of creation ». Still lifes reflect the humble things of our home and our canteen, emanating that almost religious sense of secular use that dresses them with unexpected nobility [...] oriented towards a constant search for color and formal perfection. Tradition felt not as an empty resonance, but an elaboration of a loving study by the great Lombard seventeenth century artists by a cultured and severe spirit. Adriano Gajoni, is  «Milanese painter of strict figurative observance, mainly devoted to Still life, to" fairy tale compositions "and allegorical and to" fantasies with mannequins and statues "» (Bruno Rosa Stincone). L'arte di Adriano Gajoni ha «un fondo di umano lirismo, di poesia» (Silvio Biscaro). While the compositional choices reveal an evident debt towards the Dutch painting and Flemish of the XVIII century (Günter Meißner). Gajoni è interprete di un realismo minuzioso di lontana ispirazione fiamminga (Paolo Bolpagni).

 Museum 
 "Portrait of Alduina Brivio De Angelis", 1957, oil on wood, 134x98 (inv. No. 533), Pinacoteca Ambrosiana, Milan.
 "Male portrait", 1961

 Mostre 
 Quadriennale di Roma, 3 settembre 1958
 Adriano Gajoni pittore, Roma, 1958
 Adriano Gajoni, Galeria del Portico, 1959, Brescia 
 Adriano Gajoni 1913-1965, Galleria permanente d'arte di Bergamo, 10 aprile, 1965
 Adriano Gajoni, Galleria Salvetti, Milano 
 Adriano Gajoni à la Galerie Chirvan expose ses oeuvres, 16 maggio - 5 giugno, Rue de Miromesnil, Parigi, 1961
 L’après-guerre à Milan, Industrie, communication, art et mode, Université Jean Moulin, a cura di Michel Feuillet, Institut Culturel Italien de Lyon, Regione Lombardia, Comune di Milano, Lione, 2008

 Exhibitions 
 Quadrennial of Rome, 3 September 1958
 Adriano Gajoni painter, Rome, 1958
 Adriano Gajoni, Galeria del Portico, 1959, Brescia
 Adriano Gajoni 1913-1965, Permanent Art Gallery of Bergamo, April 10, 1965
 Adriano Gajoni, Salvetti Gallery, Milan
 Adriano Gajoni à la Galerie Chirvan expose ses oeuvres, May 16 - June 5, Rue de Miromesnil, Paris, 1961
 L'après-guerre à Milan, Industrie, communication, art et mode, Université Jean Moulin, edited by Michel Feuillet, Institut Culturel Italien de Lyon, Lombardy Region, Municipality of Milan, Lione, 2008

Related pages
 List of Italian painters

 Footnotes 

 Bibliography 

 Silvio Biscàro, L'art de Adriano Gajoni et son environnement historique, Editiones Artis, 1978, Milano, ISBN ARTMON1000680
 Silvio Biscàro, L'arte di Adriano Gajoni e il suo ambiente storico, Editiones Artis, 1978, Milano
 Giovanni Nocentini, Artisti italiani del secondo Novecento, Helicon, 1999 
 Bruno Rosa Stincone, "Adriano Gajoni: pittore", 1958, Roma
 Bruno Rosa Stincone, "Adriano Gajoni espone le sue alla Galleria del Portico di Brescia", Galleria del Portico, 1959, Brescia 
 Bruno Rosa Stincone, "Adriano Gajoni: peintre, expose ses oeuvres", Galerie Chirvan, 1961, Parigi
 Adriano Gajoni, "Peintre", Ed. La Galerie, 1961, Parigi
 Adriano Gajoni, "Galerie Chirvan", Ed. La Galerie, 1961, Parigi
 Paolo Bolpagni, Catalogazione Opere Pinacoteca Ambrosiana di Wolfango Pinardi, Ritratto di Alduina Brivio De Angelis (p. 22. fig11), 1961, Milano
 Archivio Storico Lodigiano, 1963
 Archivio Biografico Italiano II Agostino Mario Comanducci, Dizionario Illustrato dei Pittori, Disegnatori e Incisori Italiani moderni e contemporanei, vol. II, Milano, 1971
 Pinacoteca Ambrosiana, Volume 4, Ed. Electa, 2008, Milano 
 Maurizio Agnellini, "Novecento italiano: pittori e scultori 1900-1945" (analisi degli artisti dall'inizio del secolo alla fine della seconda guerra mondiale, le cui opere abbiano una reale circolazione sul mercato), Istituto geografico de Agostini, 1997 
 Günter Meißner (Hrsg.): Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon Klaus G. Saur, vol. XLVIIK, München / Leipzig, 2005, p. 342 
 Giorgio Di Genova, Storia dell'arte italiana del '900, Volume 1, Volume 6, Edizioni Bora, 2007
 C. Marcora, "I benefattori dell'Ambrosiana" in Memorie storiche della Diocesi di Milano, vol. XVI, Milano 1969, p. 338
 G. Ravasi, L'allestimento della Pinacoteca nel 1906, Milano
 Marco Rossi, Alessandro Rovetta, Il nuovo allestimento della Pinacoteca e le ultime acquisizioni, p. 238, Milano
 Alessandro Rovetta, "Il Novecento della Storia Ambrosiana da Giovanni Galbiati a Angelo Predi, allestimenti, acquisizioni, mostre e restauri", in Storia Ambrosiana. Il Novecento'', 2002, Milano

Other websites 
  Giuseppe Adriano Gajoni (1913 - 1965). Pinacoteca Ambrosiana, Volume 4
  Mostra Collettiva Adriano Gajoni, "Milano: sfida all'arte astratta 14/05/1959", RAI, Istituto Luce 

1913 births
Italian painters
People from Paris
1965 deaths