A catalog of a delightful and very Felliniesque drawings by
the master Italian film director, now on view in conjunction with a
film festival at the Guggenheim Museum, New York
Federico Fellini, the master of the Italian art film, was an
active visual artist for whom drawing was integral to the creative
process. Fellini's funny, grotesque and irreverent sketches of
faces, voluptuous women, costumes and larger scenes Fellini fans
will recognize reveal an obsession with line and form. Rarely
viewed sketches for his films, excerpts from his illustrated dream
journals, and a late body of erotic drawings set new, ever larger
boundaries for the Fellini vision. Fellini's lifelong affinity for
the comic strip is seen in a range of works which were conceived as
films but ultimately realized as strips and graphic books. The
remarkable body of drawings, cartoons, and caricatures in this
catalogue attest to the primacy of drawing in his technique and
provides a new insight into the working mind of a film genius.