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Lucio Fontana: The Artist's Materials Porcelain from Versailles Alexandra Sofroniew was assistant curatorPia Gottschaller Lucio Fontana (18991968) is widely regarded as one of the most influential and innovative postWorld War II Italian artists. Best known for his taglislashed, mostly monochromatic canvasesFontana fashioned a remarkably multifaceted oeuvre that encompasses architecture, sculpture, and ceramics, as well as painting. In his quest to expand the vocabulary of his art, Fontana subjected the pictorial surface of his paintings to a remarkable