Dorazio, Piero

▪ 2006

      Italian artist (b. June 29, 1927, Rome, Italy—d. May 17, 2005, Perugia, Italy), created abstract paintings known for their bold colours and geometric patterns. At age 20 Dorazio cofounded the abstract artists group Forma 1 and earned a scholarship to study for a year at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. In 1950 he helped to establish an artists cooperative gallery, the L'Age d'Or, in Rome. Dorazio's works were exhibited at the 1952 Venice Biennale; his first one-person show was the next year at the Wittenborn One-Wall Gallery in New York City, and in 1965 he was part of “The Responsive Eye” exhibit at New York City's Museum of Modern Art. Dorazio also taught at Harvard University (1953) and at the Graduate School of Fine Arts at the University of Pennsylvania (1961–69), where he cofounded the Institute of Contemporary Art.

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