Gaetano Minale

Gaetano Minale (Agnone 4 July 1938) is an Italian impressionist artist and painter who has also created several volumes including: The painting of a common man in 2015, Woman and nature in his painting in 2016 and A life for painting in 2018.
==Education==
In 1949, Minale attended the professional and technical school in Agnone and graduated as an electrical engineer in 1960 at the Industriale in Chieti.
==Career==
As early as 1951, at the Avignon school in Agnone, his Indian ink drawings were displayed on the school bulletin board.
In 1962 he was hired by Unes, an electricity company which was nationalized in 1963 as Enel.
In 1969, he attended the atelier of the painter and restorer Gennaro Bravo in Atessa until 1975 and learned all the procedures for using oil on canvas.
In 1977, he was awarded the Oscar Italy for art for "His Effective and Important activity in the artistic-cultural field"
Gaetano Minale was called to join the Accademia de "I 500", the Accademia di San Marco, the Accademia di Arte Moderna and the Accademia Tiberina in Rome. In 1978, he was also named academician of Italy and received a gold medal. It is an effective member of the World Union of Culture.
Gaetano Minale has created over 120 exhibitions all over the world.
2008 - Collaborates for the publication of a volume "The Bells of Atessa" realizing 12 paintings of ancient churches of Atessa no longer existing, reconstructed on the basis of documents of the time and testimonies, which are reproduced in the appendix of the book edited by Lello D'Amico. 
In 2011 he was nominated Artist for UNICEF Pov. of Palermo.
In 2015 – He creates a series of paintings that was used by the fairy tale writer Rita Cerimele of Turin, for a collection entitled” The Girl with The Red Suitcase” on behalf of the Ethics of Turino.
2016 – With a notarial deed, he donates to the municipality of Atessa 105 graphic paintings depicting glimpses and landscapes of Atessa, which are permanently exhibited in the Foyer of the Italia Auditorium in the municipal art gallery in his name.
2020 – In times of Covid-19 he creates the Gaetano Minale House Museum Collection in Atessa using three floors of his home; over 100 paintings are exhibited between graphics and mixed techniques of works carried out over 50 years of his pictorial activity.
==Volumes made==
2016 – The Municipality of Atessa publishes “Atessa, The Graphics in the Gaetano Minale Art Gallery”
2018 – He publishes the volume “A Life for Painting” for his 80th birthday.
==Artistic training==
Gaetano Minale has loved art since he was in middle school. He began painting at the age of 15 while staying with his cousin in Castellammare di Stabia, after seeing a painter paint the Gulf of Naples from the city's castle.
When he returned home, he purchased watercolor paints and began painting the Gulf himself. Gaetano Minale had to leave painting first for study reasons, and then for work reasons but his passion has never ceased. His artistic master was Gennaro Bravo from Atessa who from 1969 to 1975 in his art workshop taught everything there was to learn for the oil technique, and its secrets.
==Artistic production==
His pictorial theme for over thirty years was the culture and peasant tradition of Abruzzo, where Lamento's attachment to his own land appears evident; an ancient world that is disappearing and recognizes the painful existence of a life that can only find existential solutions in deep contact with nature. In these works, there is a yearning nostalgia for a world that is disappearing due to the incivility of this modernity.
In 2011 - The woman becomes the true protagonist of his painting in symbiosis with nature; the large canvases are born where you can see long landscapes of immense expanses of poppies, sunflowers and daisies where the light enters the wide and flowery meadows and spreads their brightness. Yellow brooms at the foot of the Majella and the spectacular overflows along the Adriatic coast of the Chieti area testifying to the ancient fishing on stilts with a net, and then the figures and faces of women immersed in the green flowery meadows which, even if motionless, speak of life.
==Main exhibitions==
# 1975 - Gelmi Art Gallery - Sesto San Giovanni (MI)
# 1991 - The Astoria Karolyl Gallery - Budapest (Hungary)
# 2021 - Exposicion Virtual Covid-19 in Pinar del Rio – Cuba.
==Private life==
Gaetano Minale now lives in Atessa (Abruzzo).
He is married to Giuditta Giorgio and has three children with her, Maria, Rosalba and Giulio.
Category:1938 births
Category:Italian people
Category:Italian artists
Category:Italian Impressionist painters