Mario Schifano was an Italian

Italy

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 painter

Painting

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 and collagist of the Postmodern tradition. He also achieved some renown as a film-maker and rock music

Rock music

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ian.

He is considered to be one of most significant and pre-eminent artists of Italian postmodernism, alongside contemporaries such as Francesco Clemente

Francesco Clemente

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, Sandro Chia

Sandro Chia

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 and Giulio Paolini

Giulio Paolini

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. His work was exhibited in the famous 1962 "New Realists" show at the Sidney Janis

Sidney Janis

Sidney Janis was a wealthy clothing manufacturer and art collector who opened an art gallery in New York in 1948. His gallery quickly gained prominence, for he not only exhibited the work of most of the emerging leaders of Abstract Expressionism, but also that of such important European artists as...

 Gallery with all the young Pop art

Pop art

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 and Nouveau réalisme luminaries, including Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol

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 and Roy Lichtenstein

Roy Lichtenstein

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. He became part of the core group of artists comprising the "Scuola romana

Scuola Romana

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" alongside Franco Angeli and Tano Festa . Reputed as a prolific and exuberant artist, he nonetheless struggled with a life-long drug habit that earned him the label maledetto, or "cursed".

Schifano had a relationship with Marianne Faithfull

Marianne Faithfull

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in 1969.