Biography
Guido Corazziari was born July.11.1952 in Bari, Italy into a house full of artists. He grew up surrounded by art books and comics, a world populated by Botticelli, Superman, Picasso and Mickey Mouse. Further fueling his growing image bank were icons from television's early years: Carosello's Italian TV stars Calimero and Topo Gigio; reels of animated toons from the likes of Disney, Hanna-Barbera and Max Fleischer. The flowering of pop art in the 60's, particularly Andy Warhol, made an indelible impression on Corazziari's teen years. Then in the late 60's Pop art morphed into a psychedelic feast for the eyes, blending sex, drugs and rock and roll culture. Corazziari's art expresses the pure joy of this pop experience in its collision of Las Vegas neon with Pollock's abstract painting, movie stars with new electronic aesthetics, and Vargas' pin-ups with Tiziano's Venus.In 1980 he graduated with a degree in Architecture and then in 1981 became a tenured professor at the Accademia di Belle Arti, specializing in courses on Special Graphic Techniques.
