Carmen D'Avino
| Carmen D’Avino | |
|---|---|
| Born |
31 October 1918 Woodbury, Connecticut, United States |
| Died | 30 November 2004 (aged 86) Ogdensburg, New York, United States |
| Nationality | Italian American |
| Known for | Animation, Painting, Sculpture. |
| Spouse(s) |
Elsie Forte (Was Carmen's first wife & mother of his only child, Anthony Carmen D'Avino. A son whom he never fully acknowledged to other people due to his second wife's wishes.) Helena Elfing (Was his second wife) Biological Children: Anthony Carmen D'Avino Followed by: 6 grandchildren, 6 great grandchildren and 7 great great grandchildren |
Elsie Forte (Was Carmen's first wife & mother of his only child, Anthony Carmen D'Avino. A son whom he never fully acknowledged to other people due to his second wife's wishes.) Helena Elfing (Was his second wife)
Biological Children: Anthony Carmen D'Avino
Carmen D'Avino (October 31, 1918 – November 30, 2004) was a pioneer in animated short film. As one of the leading figures in the avant-garde film movement of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, his films, known for their wit and graphic brilliance, received many international honors, including two Academy Award nominations, and were regularly seen at Cinema 16, the most successful and influential membership film society in North American history. His works in oils and sculpture have achieved similar success, part of his always expanding experimentation into shape, color and form.
As a teenager in Connecticut, D'Avino traded an old hunting rifle for a Kodak movie camera. The swap was life-altering and the beginning of D'Avino's adventurous, lifelong journey into the world of art.
Beginning in the late 1930s with his studies at the Art Students League in New York City, and influenced by his teachers Robert Brackman and Andre l'Hote, D'Avino gravitated toward films and painting. His work with film led to his World War II assignment as a combat photographer with the Fourth Infantry Division of the US Army that climaxed with his filming the Normandy Invasion and the Liberation of Paris.
D'Avino remained in Paris after the war and was the first American to use the GI Bill to study abroad. He enrolled at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris.
While studying oil painting, D'Avino was stimulated by film shorts, especially Alain Resnais's 1948 film, "Van Gogh", which he saw in cine-clubs in Paris and, in 1950, won the Academy Award for the best documentary. He began to experiment with film, documenting the experiences of postwar France.
After abandoning his wife Elise Forte and his only child Anthony. D'Avino met his future wife, Helena Elfing of Finland in 1947, and in 1948, after an extended tour hitchhiking together across Italy, he followed her to India where she had accepted the position of tutor to the son of the newly posted French Ambassador to India.
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