It's almost a totally unknown fact that the founder of Aeropittura, the celebrated Italian painter Tullio Crali, was born in Montenegro. Tullio Crali was born in 1910 in Igalo, municipality of Herceg Novi. Later, his family moved to Zadar and then to Gorizia. He graduated from technical college and then from the faculty of Architecture. He was a self-taught painter.
Crali's career as a painter began effectively in 1929, which is now taken as the date of the beginning of the aeropittura school of art. In that year he joined a group of Italian futurists and began to exhibit. By 1933 he had participated in the Biennale in Venice, where he exhibited his well known work "Rivoluzione di mondi" - "Revolution of the worlds", which he destroyed immediately after the exhibition. After that his career took off, and over the next few years he exhibited regularly at the Biennale in Venice, where a permanent exhibition of his paintings was opened in 1940. After the second world war he moved to Paris, where he spent almost all the 1950's. In 1962 he moved to Cairo, returning to Milan in 1966, where he lived and worked until his death in 2000. A few years ago an initiative was begun to install a memorial plaque or to open a gallery in Igalo or Herceg Novi, bearing the name of this famous painter, born in our country. This would be a significant contribution to the tourist attractions of the town and would raise the level of cooperation with Italy. We have selected three of Tullio Crali's works.
"Salto in alto" - High jump - 1936
"I naufragi"-Drowning men - 1936
No title - 1942 These photos of Cralli's work are the property of the web site http://www.futur-ism.it Gordan StojovicMontenegro.com
It's almost a totally unknown fact that the founder of Aeropittura, the celebrated Italian painter Tullio Crali, was born in Montenegro. Tullio Crali was born in 1910 in Igalo, municipality of Herceg Novi. Later, his family moved to Zadar and then to Gorizia. He graduated from technical college and then from the faculty of Architecture. He was a self-taught painter.
Crali's career as a painter began effectively in 1929, which is now taken as the date of the beginning of the aeropittura school of art. In that year he joined a group of Italian futurists and began to exhibit. By 1933 he had participated in the Biennale in Venice, where he exhibited his well known work "Rivoluzione di mondi" - "Revolution of the worlds", which he destroyed immediately after the exhibition. After that his career took off, and over the next few years he exhibited regularly at the Biennale in Venice, where a permanent exhibition of his paintings was opened in 1940. After the second world war he moved to Paris, where he spent almost all the 1950's. In 1962 he moved to Cairo, returning to Milan in 1966, where he lived and worked until his death in 2000. A few years ago an initiative was begun to install a memorial plaque or to open a gallery in Igalo or Herceg Novi, bearing the name of this famous painter, born in our country. This would be a significant contribution to the tourist attractions of the town and would raise the level of cooperation with Italy. We have selected three of Tullio Crali's works. 
"Salto in alto" - High jump - 1936 
"I naufragi"-Drowning men - 1936 
No title - 1942 These photos of Cralli's work are the property of the web site http://www.futur-ism.it Gordan StojovicMontenegro.com
