"Scuola Mazzon"is Italian for"Mazzon School."These postcards show work by three different students in the early 1950s.
The Mazzon School was an art school for children founded in 1929 by the Italian artist Galliano Mazzon (1896 - 1978). According to a&British Museum webpage(with text quoted from Martin Hopkinson,'Italian Prints 1875-1975'),"Mazzon challenged accepted academic methods, banning his students from copying from nature, and encouraging spontaneous expression of the emotions, fantasy, the imagination, and dreams."
There seems to be a difference of opinion about whether the school encouraged"spontaneous"expression. A review in&Art Digestof a 1955 Mazzon School exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art says that"the teaching method represented in these pictures, emphasizes not the spontaneous approaches encouraged in more creative American schools…but more formal, flat decorative patterns which give most of the paintings here a handsomely stylized quality--and, it must be added, a rather similar style as well: with a few exceptions the paintings seem more like a one-man show than works by 15 or 20 children."
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