Voltolino Fontani was an Italian painter

Painting

Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...

. He was an artist who contributed to introduce the espression 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...

 in the European culture. He was the founder of Eaismo

Eaismo

Eaismo was a 20th century avant-garde movement born in Italy in 1948, founded by the painter, Voltolino Fontani, who was the main rappresentant of it, with the poet Marcello Landi and the literary critic Guido Favati....

, an artistic movement linking arts to Atomic age.

In 1948 he published “Manifesto of Eaismo

Eaismo

Eaismo was a 20th century avant-garde movement born in Italy in 1948, founded by the painter, Voltolino Fontani, who was the main rappresentant of it, with the poet Marcello Landi and the literary critic Guido Favati....

”, anticipating the Manifesto of Arte 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 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....

 (Manifesto mistico, 1951).

External links

• :it:Pittura Nucleare The Italian page for the arte nucleare