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Forgotten Pioneer of Surrealism: Alberto Martini & His Monde Macabre
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Image: Portrait of André Breton by Martini, 1922, via Messy Nessy Chic
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A Forgotten Pioneer of Surrealism: Alberto Martini and his Monde Macabre
Welcome to the curious world of Artist Alberto Martini, an obscure original visionary and precursor of surrealism. An illustrator, painter, sculptor, propagandist, and possessor of the graphic macabre. He would go on to influence an art movement, visualise the dark and grotesque for Edgar Allan Poe, and journey to the depths of the underworld with…