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). The art of Adriano Gajoni have  _A touch of human lyricism, of poetry._ («un fondo di umano lirismo, di poesia») said 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, Pinacoteca Ambrosiana

## 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.

## Related pages

- List of Italian painters

## 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
- Mannheim Morgen, 1958
- Il Messagero, Roma, 1958
- La Fiera Letteraria, Roma, 1958
- L’Uomo qualunque, Roma, 1958
- Catalogo Adriano Gajoni, Galleria S.Marco, Roma, 1958

## 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

## Infobox (artist)

- **name**: Adriano Gajoni
- **image**: Gajoni Adriano.jpg
- **caption**: Adriano Gaioni
- **birth date**: October 29, 1913
- **birth place**: Milan, Italy
- **nationality**: Italian
- **field**: Still life, landscape painting, landscapes, seascapes
- **death date**: March 26, 1965
- **death place**: Milan, Italy