Degrazia And Munch Paintings

By Darren Hartley


The DeGrazia paintings are lifelong appreciation of the native cultures in the Sonoran desert and passion for the creation of art depicting their lives and lore. The early DeGrazia paintings were created in Bisbee. In 1941, Raymond Carlson, editor of Arizona Highways, started to publish features about Ettore, nicknamed Ted by a schoolteacher in the Morenci High School.

Tucson galleries showed no interest in exhibiting DeGrazia paintings. This prompted Ted to buy an acre of land at Prince Road and Campbell Avenue to build his first adobe studio in 1944. The following year, Ted received a BFA and a Master of Arts titled Art and its Relation to Music in Art Education.

DeGrazia paintings steadily attracted media attention. They were featured in the NBC newsreel titled Watch the World and in a profile article in a 1953 edition of National Geographic entitled From Tucson to Tombstone. It was in 1960 that their fame flourished when a 1957 DeGrazia oil painting, Los Ninos, was chosen by UNICEF for a holiday card. The card sold millions worldwide.

The mental illness Edvard Munch's father suffered from appears to be the root cause for the strong mental anguish displayed in the majority of Munch paintings. Brought up with impounding fears of hell, Edvard grew up with many repressed emotions that led to his work taking a deeper tone.

In 1885, DeGrazia paintings were extremely influenced by the impressionist artists. These were followed by works depicting a post-impressionistic style, which eventually became the style on which Edvard focused on.

Munch paintings depicted the darker side of art. Tones and shadows were used to depict the emotions the images were feelings, seemingly coming from the deep seating feelings Edvard tended to keep inside himself. This style of painting was considered to be a prelude to the German expressionistic movement, which came out with its own dark pieces.




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