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Drawing has been a part of Federico Fellini's life since his childhood -- sketching wherever paper was found. Even today, he is constantly making graphic notes in his appointment and telephone books of the characteristics that distinguish people as individuals: a mustache, a tie, a pair of women's legs, a face; and from the very beginning of his career, sketches have been the fashion in which he begins each new film. (Such is the case with "Il. Casanova -- il teatro di Dresda"). Federico Fellini's drawings have been exhibited at art galleries and museums in England, France, Hungary, and Italy. In November 1986, Fellini's drawings, including "Il. Casanova -- il teatro di Dresda," premiered in the United States at the Pierre Matisse Gallery in New York City.
Federico Fellini has created a world all his own in the more than 40 films he has written and directed -- where everyday life is exaggerated into cinemascopic proportion; where faces press against camera lens and become the window on the Fellini world; where nothing is as it seems, but all things are possible; where Woman as Goddess is at once exciting yet frightening, enticing yet forbidden. Fellini's style, sometimes surrealistic, prophetic or satirical, fuses fantasy and reality, turns dreams into drama, and consternation into comedy.
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The two films that brought international acclaim to Fellini are the 1957 Academy Award winning La Strada and La Dolce Vita, winner of the 1960 Cannes Film Festival Award. Amarcord earned Fellini his second Academy Award in 1973.
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