Eaismo was a 20th century avant-garde

Avant-garde

Avant-garde means "advance guard" or "vanguard". The adjective form is used in English to refer to people or works that are experimental or innovative, particularly with respect to art, culture, and politics....

 movement

Art movement

An art movement is a tendency or style in art with a specific common philosophy or goal, followed by a group of artists during a restricted period of time, or, at least, with the heyday of the movement defined within a number of years...

 born in Italy

Italy

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 in 1948, founded by the painter, Voltolino Fontani

Voltolino Fontani

Voltolino Fontani was an Italian painter. He was an artist who contributed to introduce the espression Atomic age in the European culture...

, who was the main rappresentant of it, with the poet Marcello Landi and the literary critic Guido Favati.

It was also the italian writer Carlo Cassola

Carlo Cassola

Carlo Cassola was an important Italian novelist and essayist. His novel La Ragazza di Bube , which received the Strega Prize, was adapted into a film by Luigi Comencini in 1963....

, to talk about Eaismo by writing some articles for the magazine "Il Mondo".

The Manifesto of Eaismo, signed also by the painters Angelo Sirio Pellegrini and Aldo Neri, highlighted the pessimism and the optimism of the Atomic age

Atomic Age

The Atomic Age, also known as the Atomic Era, is a phrase typically used to delineate the period of history following the detonation of the first nuclear bomb Trinity on July 16, 1945...

, but was skeptical about the supposed revolutionary power of atomic energy.

The Manifesto of Eaismo, published in 1948, was followed by the Manifesto pittura nucleare by Enrico Baj

Enrico Baj

Enrico Baj was an Italian artist and writer on art. Many of his works show an obsession with nuclear war. He created prints, sculptures but especially collage. He was close to the surrealist and dada movements, and was later associatied with CoBrA. As an author he has been described as a leading...

 (1951), and by the Mystical Manifesto, written by Salvador Dalì

Salvador Dalí

Salvador Domènec Felip Jacint Dalí i Domènech, Marquis de Púbol , commonly known as Salvador Dalí , was a prominent Spanish Catalan surrealist painter born in Figueres,Spain....

 (1951).

External links

• :it:Pittura Nucleare The Italian page for the arte nucleare
• :it:Era atomica The Italian page for the atomic age