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Antonio Diego Voci (VOH-chee 1920–1985) was an internationally collected Italian figurative artist with the largest group of owners of his works residing in Switzerland, England, Germany, Italy, Canada and the US; as well as various works scattered the world over. Although constantly drawing or painting from childhood to the day he succumbed to lung cancer, Diego's most productive period was the last quarter century of his life which began when he met Helga Drössler in January 1960 in Paris.〔 A significant turning point in Diego’s career, Diego said, "My life took on new meaning. I became more."〔 Helga who became Diego’s wife, lover, best friend and confident, published seven chapters of her life with Diego on Artifact Collectors.〔〔 Within those 25 abundant years Diego created 4000 oils, mostly on canvas, and many thousands of drawings.〔〔 "Each movement had its great masters, but there are very few who could create art unconfined by a single style like Diego." – Christopher Voci〔 Impressionism, Cubism, Surrealism, and Fauvism all experienced the hand of Diego Voci who was fascinated by the beauty and mystery of the face and figure, whether the female body nude or in ballet, or the etched lines of life’s hardships in an old man’s face, or the grace and power of the horse. Diego’s versatility was his strength.〔〔〔 Diego not only saw and realized human frailty, the desire and longing of the human to be something more, seeking but not to find; but also he understood man’s animal instinct to overpower, offset by the object’s instinct to resist.〔〔〔〔 ==1920–1938: early life== Antonio Diego Voci (VOH-chee), the youngest of 3 brothers was born Antonio Innocenzo Voci on 10 August 1920 in the mountainous region near Catanzaro, Italy, in the small village of Gasperina,〔http://diegovoci.com/About.html〕 to Giuseppantonio Voci and Arcangela Messina Voci, a Catholic family of modest means. From childhood Diego felt compelled to draw as constantly and effortlessly as he drew a breath, endowed by nature to do both.〔〔 At an early age Diego took charge of his own life direction. Diego proudly boasted his independent, I’ll-do-it-myself spirit when at age eight, he carved his own religious statue when his father would not buy the one he wanted in a Rome store window. Diego was called on in school for art, design and decoration projects. By age 12 he was awarded a year scholarship to a design school.〔 Diego proudly recalled that in his youth religious artist Antonino Calcagnadoro (1876–1935) let him help paint a church fresco.〔 Diego studied sculpture and painting for three years at Lyce d’Art, followed by studies of Greek and Latin, as well as tailoring.〔 All three Voci boys were sent to Reggio to study tailoring.〔 In December 1920, four months after Diego’s birth, their father took the oldest brother Vincenzo, age 15, to Philadelphia where they both worked as tailors. For 3 ½ years Messina Arcangela raised "Toto", her pet name for Diego, until her husband came back to Gasperina with enough money to open a dry goods store.〔 In 1930, Vincenzo returned to Italy〔 to marry 17-year-old Anna Spadea, (born 1913 Gasperina) whom he took back to Philadelphia continuing as one of the area's finest tailors and designer for Pincus Manufacturing.〔〔 The middle brother, Giuseppe became a professional musician and played in the Rome Orchestra.〔〔 Diego sold his first painting at age 18.〔〔〔 Typical of most parents, Giuseppantonio, encouraged his son to follow in his traditional profession, "Toto (), the God of Art does not give bread."〔 But the compulsion in Diego for art was too strong, the pleasure too rewarding, "'I was born to paint."〔 And paint he did in the thousands, and drawings beyond count.〔〔 In addition to his vast array of artworks, Diego would also design and make his own clothes as an adult, and for the ladies of his liking.〔 Diego relied on himself for money. All members of the Voci family agree Diego never received financing from the family, and that he never worked at any occupation other than art.〔〔〔 Upon venturing out on his own Diego summoned his practical side to employ his art talent to works of art he knew the public would quickly buy, to raise money or trade for food, bed, paint and canvas, and to finance his study, to expand knowledge, experience and skill.〔〔〔 Also to enjoy pleasures in life, and sports. (Diego was a competitive cyclist in high school.〔〔〔〔) His time to create his own masterworks would come later. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Antonio Diego Voci」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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