Artist: Piero Dorazio (1927 - 2005) Title: "Night Fall" Technique: Lithograph Stamp and signature at the bottom: XI / XXV Dimensions with frame: 75 x 56 cm Piero Dorazio (Rome, 1927 – Perugia, 2005) was one of the greatest representatives of European abstract art. The need to remove art from any naturalistic reference and from the social function that had characterized it up to that moment, led to the formation in 1947 of the Forma 1 Group, which Dorazio directed together with Carla Accardi, Ugo Attardi, Pietro Consagra, Mino Guerrini, Achille Perilli, Antonio Sanfilippo and Giulio Turcato. The group's desire is to free art from a psychological or realistic dimension, associating it with the criterion of structure with particular attention to the sign and form as the sole element of expression. These principles will be the basis of Dorazio's entire production. The artist, in fact, finds a key to interpreting abstract art, stating that the abstract painting represents nothing other than itself, because it is made up of elements of vision. Art is a representation of the unreal which, however, is capable of exciting and transmitting real sensations.